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Scott's Reference Library
Philippians 2:5 through Philippians 2:11 (NIV)
5Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
7 but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 5-11
The example of our Lord Jesus Christ is set before us. We must resemble him in
his life, if we would have the benefit of his death. Notice the two natures of
Christ; his Divine nature, and human nature. Who being in the form of God,
partaking the Divine nature, as the eternal and only-begotten Son of God, John
1:1, had not thought it a robbery to be equal with God, and to receive Divine
worship from men. His human nature; herein he became like us in all things
except sin. Thus low, of his own will, he stooped from the glory he had with the
Father before the world was. Christ’s two states, of humiliation and exaltation,
are noticed. Christ not only took upon him the likeness and fashion, or form of
a man, but of one in a low state; not appearing in splendour. His whole life was
a life of poverty and suffering. But the lowest step was his dying the death of
the cross, the death of a malefactor and a slave; exposed to public hatred and
scorn. The exaltation was of Christ’s human nature, in union with the Divine. At
the name of Jesus, not the mere sound of the word, but the authority of Jesus,
all should pay solemn homage. It is to the glory of God the Father, to confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord; for it is his will, that all men should honour the
Son as they honour the Father, John 5:23. Here we see such motives to
self-denying love as nothing else can supply. Do we thus love and obey the Son
of God?