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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Gregory of Nyssa
AD 394
And even the word emptied clearly affirms that he was not always as he appeared to us in history…. He “emptied himself,” as the apostle says, by contracting the ineffable glory of his Godhead within our small compass. In this way “what he was” remained great and perfect and incomprehensible, but “what he assumed” was commensurate with the measure of our own nature. .
