LXX., KSVOV Tro/Jjtfa/, Is. xxxii. 6, where the matter discussed is indeed quite different, but yet Paul, when he uses sxsvuffsv, translates by it the verb ion, Ps. viii. 5, with which comp. Heb. ii. 7. Wherever there is emptying, there is a thing containing and a thing contained. The thing containing, in the emptying of Christ, is Himself ; the thing contained was that fulness, which He received in His exaltation. He remained full, John i. 14 : and yet He bore Himself in the same way as if He were empty ; for He avoided the observation, so far as it was expedient, of men and angels, nay, even of His own self: Rom. xv. 3: and therefore not only avoided observation, but also denied Himself, and abstained from His rights. — ^o^v, form) These three words, poppy, o/AofufAa, Gyyi pa,1 form, likeness, fashion, are not synonymous, nor even can they be interchanged the one for the other ; but yet they are closely related : form signifies something absolute ; likeness denotes a relation to other things of the same condition ; fashion is to be referred to the sight and sense. — Xa/3wv, having taken) The act of emptying carries with it [contains in it] His taking the form of a servant. Moreover He was able to take it, because He was in the likeness of men. — o^o/o^ar/ avdpunuv, in the likeness of men) He was made like men, a true man.
8. K«/ 6-yjipuTi, and in fashion) a distinct and lower degree of emptying. The antitheses are, the form of God, and the form of a servant. Yet such a division of the parts of the sentence remains as joins the two words, emptied, humbled, by and, without an asyndeton.2 'AXXa, but, ver. 7, divides into its two distinct parts the whole antithesis, which, after the og, who, in the former part, has two clauses; more clauses in the second. — ff^pari tvpsfats u$ avOpuwog, being found in fashion as a man) <r%^a? fashion, dress, clothing, food, gesture, words and actions. — svpsfaig, being found) showing Himself such, and bearing Himself so in reality. — ug avQpu-TToc) as a man, a common man, as if He were nothing else
1 The word a-^^a,, habitus (Th. a-^u habeo), ' condition,' * appearance,' 4 bearing,' has a wider application than poptyq, forma. 'Oftoiorns is the similarity itself : 'Oftoiaai; the image or likeness according to which anything is conformed : 'Qptoiafta the thing itself so conformed or made like. — ED.
2 So Lachm. rightly punctuates with comma after dvt)pc>>7r&>is •ytvo/xti/og, and x,ul ffxvftoiTi — SToiTrsivaasy eotvrov, without asyndeton. But Tisch. joins ytyofcsfof and evpeQsis by xa.1, putting the comma after dy$ptMro{, so that there is an asyndeton between tKtyuatu and STOWS [yuani*. — ED.