[14] _Labon_: the aorist participle, in Greek idiom, unites itself closely in thought with the aorist verb _ekenose_ just previous. The resulting idea is not "He made Himself void, and then took," but "He made Himself void _by taking_." The "Exinanition" was, in fact, just this--_the taking the form of the_ _doulos_: neither less nor more. [15] Note again the aorist verb and aorist participle: _etapeinose_ . . . _genomenos_. [16] The Greek, _mechri thanatou_, makes it plain that the Lord did not _obey death_ but _obeyed the Father_ so utterly as even to die. [17] Cicero, _pro Rabirio_, c. 5. [18] Bishop Lightfoot has well vindicated this reference of the _onoma_ here. I venture to refer the reader also to my commentary on Philippians, in _The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges_. [19] Not "the Name Jesus," but "the Name of, belonging to, Jesus." The grammar admits either rendering, but the context, if I explain it aright, is decisive. "The Name" is still the Supreme Name, JEHOVAH, as just above.--"_In_ the Name" should be explained, in view of the context, not of worship _through_ but worship yielded _to_ the Name. See Lightfoot for examples of this usage. [20] Chrysostom brings this great truth nobly out in his homiletic comments here (_Hom._ vii. on Philippians, ch. 4): "A mighty proof it is of the Father's power, and goodness, and wisdom, that He hath begotten such a Son, a Son nowise inferior in goodness and wisdom . . . like Him in all things, Fatherhood alone excepted." Nothing but the orthodox Creed, with its harmonious truths of the proper Godhead and proper Filiation of the Lord Christ, can possibly satisfy _the whole_ of the apostolic language about His infinite glory on the one hand and His relation to the Father on the other. [21] In my _Veni Creator_ and _To my Younger Brethren_, and more recently in a University Sermon quoted at the close of a little book published Easter, 1896, by Seeley: _Prayers and Promises_. "Make my life a bright outshining Of Thy life, that all may see Thine own resurrection power Mightily shewn forth in me; Ever let my heart become Yet more consciously Thy home." MISS J. S. PIGOTT. _THE LORD'S POWER IN THE DISCIPLE'S LIFE_ "O Jesus Christ, grow Thou in me, And all things else recede; My heart be daily nearer Thee, From sin be daily freed. "More of Thy glory let me see, Thou Holy, Wise, and True; I would Thy living image be In joy and sorrow too." H. B. SMITH, _from the German of_ C. LAVATER. CHAPTER VI THE LORD'S POWER IN THE DISCIPLE'S LIFE PHILIPPIANS ii. 12-18 "Your own salvation"--Stars in the midnight sky--Truth and holiness--The atonement and the indwelling--Mystery and need of the indwelling--Indifference in God--Spiritual power shewn in love--Aggression and witness--The witnesses and the martyr