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
If we take him simply and solely to be a man made from a woman, how could he be said to be in the form equal to the Father? If only a man, how could he have the fullness that would make sense of his being emptied? What height could he have occupied before that he might be said to have “humbled himself?” How did he “come to be in the likeness of men” if he was already so by nature? Scholium on the Incarnation of the Only Begotten.
