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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John Chrysostom
AD 407
If it were through a natural inferiority that he undertook to bear “the form of a slave,” this would not be an instance of humility. Yet Paul makes excellent use of this example as an exhortation precisely to humility. On the Equality of the Father and the Son, Homily
