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Philippians 2:8
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he humbled himself by becoming obedientto the point of death—even to death on a cross.
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himselfe, and became obedient vnto death, euen the death of the Crosse.
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death: death on a cross.
And when he was living as a man, he humbled himself and was fully obedient to God, even when that caused his death—death on a cross.
Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death-even death on a cross.
Christ was humble. He obeyed God and even died on a cross.
he humbled himself still more by becoming obedient even to death — death on a stake as a criminal!
and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and [that the] death of [the] cross.
he humbled himself by being fully obedient to God, even when that caused his death—death on a cross.
He humbled himselfe, and became obedient vnto the death, euen the death of the Crosse.
And, being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient to death, even the death of the cross.
He was humble and walked the path of obedience all the way to death— his death on the cross.
he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, that is, death on a cross.
and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, having become obedient until death, even the death of a cross.
After He was found in [terms of His] outward appearance as a man [for a divinely-appointed time], He humbled Himself [still further] by becoming obedient [to the Father] to the point of death, even death on a cross.
and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.
And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.
And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.
And lived in all humility,Matthew 26:39,42; John 10:18; Hebrews 5:8; 12:2;">[xr] Death on a cross obeying.
and in fashion was found as a man, and humbled himself, and was obedient unto death, but the death of the cross.
and he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
He humbled hym selfe, made obedient vnto death, euen the death of the crosse.
and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.
And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.
And being recognized as truly human, He humbled Himself and even stooped to die; yes, to die on a cross.
He mekide hym silf, and was maad obedient to the deth, yhe, to the deth of the cross.
and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient [even] to death, yes, the death of the cross.
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient to death, even the death of the cross.
He humbled himself, by becoming obedient to the point of death —even death on a cross!
And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal's death on a cross.
After He became a man, He gave up His important place and obeyed by dying on a cross.
he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross.
And, in fashion, being found, as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient as far as death, yea, death upon a cross.
He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross.
And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.
and was founde in his aparell as a man. He humbled him silfe and became obediet vnto ye deeth even the deeth of the crosse.
and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death -- death even of a cross,
and was founde in his apparell as a man: he humbled himselfe, and became obedient vnto the death, euen vnto the death of the crosse.
and his whole exterior showing nothing more than a meer man, he abased himself, and carried his submission so far as to die, even the death of the cross.
He humbled himself in obedience to God and rode all the way to the cross. He died like a criminal so you could live like a king.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
in: Matthew 17:2, Mark 9:2, Mark 9:3, Luke 9:29
he: Proverbs 15:33, Acts 8:33, Hebrews 5:5-7, Hebrews 12:2
and became: Psalms 40:6-8, Isaiah 50:5, Isaiah 50:6, Matthew 26:39, Matthew 26:42, John 4:34, John 15:10, Hebrews 5:8, Hebrews 5:9, Hebrews 10:7-9
the death: Deuteronomy 21:23, Psalms 22:16, John 10:18, John 12:28-32, John 14:31, Galatians 3:13, Titus 2:14, Hebrews 12:2, 1 Peter 2:24, 1 Peter 3:18
Reciprocal: Genesis 7:5 - all that Genesis 22:9 - bound Deuteronomy 21:3 - an Judges 16:30 - So the dead 1 Samuel 18:4 - stripped himself 2 Samuel 6:20 - glorious 1 Chronicles 17:17 - hast regarded Psalms 8:5 - thou Psalms 109:21 - But do Psalms 113:8 - General Isaiah 52:13 - my servant Isaiah 53:12 - will I Daniel 10:16 - like Matthew 3:15 - for Matthew 11:29 - for Mark 9:12 - set Mark 14:36 - nevertheless Luke 2:21 - eight Luke 22:27 - General John 6:38 - not John 19:30 - and he Romans 15:3 - Christ 1 Corinthians 3:23 - and Christ 2 Corinthians 13:4 - he was Hebrews 2:14 - he also Hebrews 2:17 - it Hebrews 4:15 - we have Revelation 1:13 - like
Cross-References
Then God planted a garden in Eden, in the east. He put the Man he had just made in it. God made all kinds of trees grow from the ground, trees beautiful to look at and good to eat. The Tree-of-Life was in the middle of the garden, also the Tree-of-Knowledge-of-Good-and-Evil.
Cain left the presence of God and lived in No-Man's-Land, east of Eden.
Lot looked. He saw the whole plain of the Jordan spread out, well watered (this was before God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah), like God 's garden, like Egypt, and stretching all the way to Zoar. Lot took the whole plain of the Jordan. Lot set out to the east. That's how they came to part company, uncle and nephew. Abram settled in Canaan; Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent near Sodom. The people of Sodom were evil—flagrant sinners against God . After Lot separated from him, God said to Abram, "Open your eyes, look around. Look north, south, east, and west. Everything you see, the whole land spread out before you, I will give to you and your children forever. I'll make your descendants like dust—counting your descendants will be as impossible as counting the dust of the Earth. So—on your feet, get moving! Walk through the country, its length and breadth; I'm giving it all to you." Abram moved his tent. He went and settled by the Oaks of Mamre in Hebron. There he built an altar to God .
"‘Haran, Canneh, and Eden from the east in Assyria and Media traded with you, bringing elegant clothes, dyed textiles, and elaborate carpets to your bazaars.
The Money Has Gone to Your Head God's Message came to me, "Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘This is what God , the Master, says: "‘Your heart is proud, going around saying, "I'm a god. I sit on God's divine throne, ruling the sea"— You, a mere mortal, not even close to being a god, A mere mortal trying to be a god. Look, you think you're smarter than Daniel. No enigmas can stump you. Your sharp intelligence made you world-wealthy. You piled up gold and silver in your banks. You used your head well, worked good deals, made a lot of money. But the money has gone to your head, swelled your head—what a big head! "‘Therefore, God , the Master, says: "‘Because you're acting like a god, pretending to be a god, I'm giving fair warning: I'm bringing strangers down on you, the most vicious of all nations. They'll pull their swords and make hash of your reputation for knowing it all. They'll puncture the balloon of your god-pretensions. They'll bring you down from your self-made pedestal and bury you in the deep blue sea. Will you protest to your assassins, "You can't do that! I'm a god"? To them you're a mere mortal. They're killing a man, not a god. You'll die like a stray dog, killed by strangers— Because I said so. Decree of God , the Master.'" God 's Message came to me: "Son of man, raise a funeral song over the king of Tyre. Tell him, A Message from God , the Master: "You had everything going for you. You were in Eden, God's garden. You were dressed in splendor, your robe studded with jewels: Carnelian, peridot, and moonstone, beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald, all in settings of engraved gold. A robe was prepared for you the same day you were created. You were the anointed cherub. I placed you on the mountain of God. You strolled in magnificence among the stones of fire. From the day of your creation you were sheer perfection... and then imperfection—evil!—was detected in you. In much buying and selling you turned violent, you sinned! I threw you, disgraced, off the mountain of God. I threw you out—you, the anointed angel-cherub. No more strolling among the gems of fire for you! Your beauty went to your head. You corrupted wisdom by using it to get worldly fame. I threw you to the ground, sent you sprawling before an audience of kings and let them gloat over your demise. By sin after sin after sin, by your corrupt ways of doing business, you defiled your holy places of worship. So I set a fire around and within you. It burned you up. I reduced you to ashes. All anyone sees now when they look for you is ashes, a pitiful mound of ashes. All who once knew you now throw up their hands: ‘This can't have happened! This has happened!'" God 's Message came to me: "Son of man, confront Sidon. Preach against it. Say, ‘Message from God , the Master: "‘Look! I'm against you, Sidon. I intend to be known for who I truly am among you.' They'll know that I am God when I set things right and reveal my holy presence. I'll order an epidemic of disease there, along with murder and mayhem in the streets. People will drop dead right and left, as war presses in from every side. Then they'll realize that I mean business, that I am God . "No longer will Israel have to put up with their thistle-and-thorn neighbors Who have treated them so contemptuously. And they also will realize that I am God ." God , the Master, says, "When I gather Israel from the peoples among whom they've been scattered and put my holiness on display among them with all the nations looking on, then they'll live in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob. They'll live there in safety. They'll build houses. They'll plant vineyards, living in safety. Meanwhile, I'll bring judgment on all the neighbors who have treated them with such contempt. And they'll realize that I am God ."
"‘Which of the trees of Eden came anywhere close to you in splendor and size? But you're slated to be cut down to take your place in the underworld with the trees of Eden, to be a dead log stacked with all the other dead logs, among the other uncircumcised who are dead and buried. "‘This means Pharaoh, the pompous old goat. "‘Decree of God , the Master.'"
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And being found in fashion as a man,.... Not that he had only the show and appearance of a man, but he was really a man; for "as" here, denotes not merely the likeness of a thing, but the thing itself, as in Matthew 14:5, ÏÏ here, answers to the Hebrew
×, which is sometimes by the Jews k said to be ××£ ××××××, and signifies likeness, and sometimes ××£ ×××ת×ת, and designs truth and reality; which is the sense in which the particle is to be taken here: though he was seen and looked upon as a mere man, and therefore charged with blasphemy when he asserted himself to be the Son of God, he was more than a man; and yet found and known by men in common to be no more than a man, than just such a man as other men are; and so far is true, that his scheme, his habit, his fashion, his form, were like that of other men; though he was not begotten as man, but conceived in an extraordinary manner by the power of the Holy Ghost, yet he lay nine months in his mother's womb, as the human foetus ordinarily does; he was born as children are, was wrapped in swaddling bands when born, as an infant is; grew in stature by degrees, as men do; the shape and size of his body were like other men's, and he was subject to the same infirmities, as hunger, thirst, weariness, pain, grief, sorrow, and death itself, as follows:
he humbled himself: by becoming man, and by various outward actions in his life; as subjection to his parents, working at the trade of a carpenter, conversing with the meanest of men, washing his disciples' feet, c. and the whole of his deportment both to God and man, his compliance with his Father's will, though disagreeable to flesh and blood, his behaviour towards his enemies, and his forbearance of his disciples, showed him to be of a meek and humble spirit he humbled himself both to God and man:
and became obedient unto death, or "until death"; for he was obedient from the cradle to the cross, to God, to men, to his earthly parents, and to magistrates; he was obedient to the ceremonial law, to circumcision, the passover, c. to the moral law, to all the precepts of it, which he punctually fulfilled and to the penalty of it, death, which he voluntarily and cheerfully bore, in the room and stead of his people:
even the death of the cross; which was both painful and shameful; it was an accursed one, and showed that he bore the curse of the law, and was made a curse for us: this was a punishment usually inflicted on servants, and is called a servile punishment l; and such was the form which he took, when he was found in fashion as a man: this is now the great instance of humility the apostle gives, as a pattern of it to the saints, and it is a matchless and unparalleled one.
k Vid. Kimchi in Josh. iii. 4. l Lipsins de Cruce, l. 1. c. 12.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And being found - That is, being such, or existing as a man, he humbled himself.
In fashion as a man - The word rendered âfashionâ - ÏÏηÍμα scheÌma - means figure, mien, deportment. Here it is the same as state, or condition. The sense is, that when he was reduced to this condition he humbled himself, and obeyed even unto death. He took upon himself all the attributes of a man. He assumed all the innocent infirmities of our nature. He appeared as other people do, was subjected to the necessity of food and clothing, like others, and was made liable to suffering, as other men are. It was still he who had been in the âform of Godâ who thus appeared; and, though his divine glory had been for a time laid aside, yet it was not extinguished or lost. It is important to remember, in all our meditations on the Saviour, that it was the same Being who had been invested with so much glory in heaven, that appeared on earth in the form of a man.
He humbled himself - Even then, when he appeared as a man. He had not only laid aside the symbols of his glory Philippians 2:7, and become a man; but when he was a man, he humbled himself. Humiliation was a constant characteristic of him as a man. He did not aspire to high honors; he did not affect pomp and parade; he did not demand the service of a train of menials; but he condescended to the lowest conditions of life; Luke 22:27. The words here are very carefully chosen. In the former case Philippians 2:7, when he became a man, he âemptied himself,â or laid aside the symbols of his glory; now, when a man, he humbled himself. That is, though he was God appearing in the form of man - a divine person on earth - yet he did not assume and assert the dignity and prerogatives appropriate to a divine being, but put himself in a condition of obedience. For such a being to obey law, implied voluntary humiliation; and the greatness of his humiliation was shown by his becoming entirely obedient, even until he died on the cross.
And became obedient - He subjected himself to the law of God, and wholly obeyed it; Hebrews 10:7, Hebrews 10:9. It was a characteristic of the Redeemer that he yielded perfect obedience to the will of God. Should it be said that, if he was God himself, he must have been himself the lawgiver, we may reply that this rendered his obedience all the more wonderful and all the more meritorious. If a monarch should for an important purpose place himself in a position to obey his own laws, nothing could show in a more striking manner their importance in his view. The highest honor that has been shown to the Law of God on earth was, that it was perfectly observed by him who made the Law - the great Mediator.
Unto death - He obeyed even when obedience terminated in death. The point of this expression is this: One may readily and cheerfully obey another where there is no particular peril. But the case is different where obedience is attended with danger. The child shows a spirit of true obedience when he yields to the commands of a father, though it should expose him to hazard; the servant who obeys his master, when obedience is attended with risk of life; the soldier, when he is morally certain that to obey will be followed by death. Thus, many a company or platoon has been ordered into the âdeadly breach,â or directed to storm a redoubt, or to scale a wall, or to face a cannon, when it was morally certain that death would be the consequence. No profounder spirit of obedience can be evinced than this. It should be said, however, that the obedience of the soldier is in many cases scarcely voluntary, since, if he did not obey, death would be the penalty. But, in the case of the Redeemer, it was wholly voluntary. He placed himself in the condition of a servant to do the will of God, and then never shrank from what that condition involved.
Even the death of the cross - It was not such a death as a servant might incur by crossing a stream, or by failing among robbers, or by being worn out by toil; it was not such as the soldier meets when he is suddenly cut down, covered with glory as he falls; it was the long lingering, painful, humiliating death of the cross. Many a one might be willing to obey if the death that was suffered was regarded as glorious; but when it is ignominious, and of the most degrading character, and the most torturing that human ingenuity can invent, then the whole character of the obedience is changed. Yet this was the obedience the Lord Jesus evinced; and it was in this way that his remarkable readiness to suffer was shown.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 8. And being found in fashion as a man — Îαι ÏÏημαÏι ÎµÏ ÌÏÎµÎ¸ÎµÎ¹Ï ÏÌÏ Î±Î½Î¸ÏÏÏοÏ. This clause should be joined to the preceding, and thus translated: Being made in the likeness of man, and was found in fashion as a man.
He humbled himself — Laid himself as low as possible:
1. In emptying himself-laying aside the effulgence of his glory.
2. In being incarnate-taking upon him the human form.
3. In becoming a servant-assuming the lowest innocent character, that of being the servant of all.
4. In condescending to die, to which he was not naturally liable, as having never sinned, and therefore had a right in his human nature to immortality, without passing under the empire of death.
5. In condescending, not only to death, but to the lowest and most ignominious kind of death, the death of the cross; the punishment of the meanest of slaves and worst of felons.
What must sin have been in the sight of God, when it required such abasement in Jesus Christ to make an atonement for it, and undo its influence and malignity!
