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NASB | Philippians 2:7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Philippians 2:7 but emptied Himself [without renouncing or diminishing His deity, but only temporarily giving up the outward expression of divine equality and His rightful dignity] by assuming the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men [He became completely human but was without sin, being fully God and fully man]. |
Bible Question: what is the word Kenosis referring to in the terms of this chapther? |
Bible Answer: coolmere, Kenosis "The term is from the Greek verb kenoun,... Christ "emptied himself" (Greek: heaton ekenosen), taking the form of a slave, born in the likeness of humankind. Christ emptying of Himself or His humbled state is expressed in verses 6-8, and His exaltation in verse 9-11. The passive voice of the verb at verse 7 suggests Christ being rendered powerless, ineffective, just like any slave. The point here is that Christ's free choice to live as a slave, assuming the conditions of a slave when in reality He was the king, expresses the great love God the father has placed in His mission to draw back to Him all his creation through the forgiveness of sins by the work of the cross. Christ's self emptying consisted of His free renunciation (expressed in the fact of the Incarnation), by which He renounced His being God (in the form of being God), which meant renouncing the Divine Majesty and Dominion, and therefore taking on existence as God "in the form of a servant." Exactly what one makes of "traking the form[of a servant]" is still highly contestable. Suffice it to say that it included a full and real humanity, totally integrated with His divinty." Our Sunday Visitor's Catholic Encyclopedia, Rev Peter Stravinskas OSV, copyright 1991 Emmaus |