Philippians Chapter 2 verse 8 Holy Bible
and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient `even' unto death, yea, the death of the cross.
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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.
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and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and [that the] death of [the] cross.
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And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
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And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.
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and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death -- death even of a cross,
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Philippians 2 : 8 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - And being found in fashion as a man. He humbled himself in the Incarnation; but this was not all. The apostle has hitherto spoken of our Lord's Godhead which he had from the beginning, and of his assumption of our human nature. He now speaks of him as he appeared in the sight of men. The aorist participle, "being found (εὑρεθείς)," refers to the time of his earthly life when he appeared as a man among men. Fashion (σχῆμα), as opposed to form (μορφή), implies the outward and transitory. In outward appearance he was as a man; he was more, for he was God. He humbled himself, and became obedient unto death; translate, as R.V., obedient. The participle implies that the supreme act of self-humiliation consisted in the Lord's voluntary submission to death. the obedience of his perfect life extended even unto death. "He taketh away [literally, 'beareth,' αἴρει] the sin of the world;" "The wages of sin is death;" therefore he suffered death for the sin which, himself sinless, he vouchsafed to bear. Here we may remark in passing that this connection of death with sin must have made death all the more awful to our sinless Lord. Even the death of the cross. No ordinary death, but of all forms of death the most torturing, the most full of shame - a death reserved by the Romans for slaves, a death accursed in the eyes of the Jews (Deuteronomy 21:23).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) And being found . . .--This should be, And after having been found (or, recognised) in fashion as a man, He [then] humbled Himself, having become obedient even to death. "After having been found," &c., clearly refers to the manifestation of Himself to the world in all the weakness of humanity: the "outward fashion" was all that men could see; and in it they found "no form or comeliness," or "beauty, that they should desire Him" (Isaiah 53:2-3). From this St. Paul proceeds to the last act of His self-humiliation in death: "He became obedient," that is, to God's will, "even up to death." His death is not here regarded as an atonement, for in that light it could be no pattern to us; but as the completion of the obedience of His life. (See Romans 5:19.) Of that life as a whole He said, "I came down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him that sent Me" (John 6:38); and the doing that will (see Hebrews 10:9-10) ended in "the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." In this light His death is the perfection of the suffering which, in consequence of the power of sin in the world, must be faced in doing the will of God (see 2Timothy 3:12); in this light we can follow it, and even "fill up what is lacking of the sufferings of Christ" (Colossians 1:24). . . .
