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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Cyril of Alexandria
AD 444
What sort of emptying is this? To assume the flesh, even in the form of a slave, a likeness to ourselves while not being like us in his own nature but superior to the whole creation. Thus he humbled himself, descending by his economy into mortal bounds. .
