5. These things and others and many more you have written me word that you answered to one who consulted you; and, seeing that they are contained in Holy Scripture, how should any one hesitate to utter what has been thus piously written, tending as they do to the glory of Christ, not to His disparagement? For if it is said of His gift, that is, of the manna, that _he that gathered little had no lack[225], he that gathered much had nothing over_[226], could He Himself suffer diminution or increase? For in what respect was He diminished by taking upon Him our bondage, our infirmities? He was humbled, He was in the form of a servant, but He was also in the glory of God the Father. He was a worm upon the Cross, but He also forgave the sins of His persecutors. He was a reproach, but He is also the glory of the Lord, as it is written, _The glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together_. What did He lose Who is wanting in nothing? _He had_ indeed _no form or comeliness_, but He had the fulness of the Godhead. He was accounted weak, but He ceased not to be the Power of God. He was seen in human form, but there shone upon earth the Divine Majesty and the glory of the Father. Sidenote: Phil. ii. 6, 7. Sidenote: Ps. xlv. 2. 6. Well therefore has the Apostle repeated the same word, saying of the Lord Jesus, _Who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God; but made Himself of no reputation and took upon Him the form of a servant_. What is the meaning of _in the form of God_ but in the fulness of the Godhead, in the expression of the Divine perfection? Being therefore in the fulness of the Godhead, He _emptied Himself_ of it, and received the fulness of human nature and perfection: as nothing was wanting to Him as God so neither was there any thing wanting to His completeness as Man, that in either _form_ He might be perfect. Wherefore David also says, _Thou art fairer than the children of men_. Sidenote: Gal. iv. 8. Sidenote: Phil. ii. 7. Sidenote: Ib. Sidenote: Jer. xvii. 9. Sidenote: S. Matt. viii. 2, 3. Sidenote: S. John xi. 33, 44. Sidenote: S. Matt. xxvii. 52.