besides, and as if He did not excel other men ; He assumed to Himself nothing extraordinary. — fravsivugev MVTOV, He humbled Himself [Engl. Vers. made Himself of no reputation^) The state of emptying gradually becomes deeper. — yevo^svog u-Trqxooc) became obedientjHeb.v. 8, viz. to God. This ellipsis expresses wXafaiav, the dutiful condescension of Jesus Christ ; obedience becomes a slave.
— peffli, even to [as far as to]) construed with humbled, also with obedient. There is the greatest humiliation in death ; ch. iii. 21 ; Acts viii. 33 ; Ps. xc. 3, LXX. ; and the greatest obedience, John x. 18. — araupoij, of the cross) which was the usual punishment of slaves [servants, whose form He took upon Him].
9. A/o xai, tvherefore also) The most appropriate reward of emptying is exaltation ; Luke xxiv. 26 ; John x. 17. That result could not but follow it ; John xvi. 15. Whatever be longs to the Father belongs to the Son. Those things could not so belong to the Father, as that they should not belong to the Son ; John xvii. 5. Paul elegantly leaves the fact to be supplied, that they also will be exalted who humble themselves according to the example of Christ ; nay, he expresses it, ch. iii. 21. — o 0£oj, God) Christ emptied Christ; God exalted Christ, comp. 1 Pet. v. 6, and made Him to be equal with God. — vKspv-tyuae, highly exalted) It was thus the humiliation was com pensated. A lofty compound. — %a< s^apiffaro, and hath given) It was thus the emptying was compensated, to which also the fulness is more expressly opposed, Eph. i. 23, iv. 10. By the verb xapifyff&ai, to give, is denoted, how acceptable the emptying of Christ was to God, and with how lowly a mind Christ, after He had gone through all that state of servitude, received this gift. — wopa) a name along with the thing, i.e. dignity and praise.
— v<7rtp <jrav ovopa, above every name) Eph. i. 21, not merely above every name among mankind.
10. Hav yow — -vata yXufftfa, every knee — every tongue) A Synec doche ;l i.e. that in every way they may worship and acknow ledge Him as Lord ; comp. Rev. v. 13. — -/.d^ri) may bow, viz. itself, either with [in token of] applause or with trembling. —
[supracselestium], of the beings dwelling in the upper
1 Bowing the knee, the part put for every kind of worship, the whole. —En.