But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
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Hilary of Poitiers
AD 368
To assume “the form of a slave,” he “emptied himself” through obedience. He emptied himself, that is, from the “form of God,” which means “equality with God.”