of his Father's person: but who showed forth his Father's glory,
and proved that he was the express likeness of his Father's
character, by the very opposite means to those which man takes, when
he wishes to show forth his own glory.

He was in the form of God. But he did not (so the text seems to
mean) think that the bliss of God was a thing to be seized on
greedily for himself. He did not think fit merely to glorify
himself; to enjoy himself. He was not like the false gods of whom
the heathen dreamed, who sat aloft in heaven and enjoyed themselves,
careless of mankind.

No. He obeyed his Father utterly, and at all costs. He emptied
himself (says St. Paul). He took on him the form of a slave. He
humbled himself. He became obedient; obedient to death; and that
death the shameful and dreadful death of the cross.

Therefore God has highly exalted him; has declared him to be
perfectly good, worthy of all praise, honour, glory, power, and
dominion; and has given him a name above all names, the name of
Jesus--Saviour. One who saved others, and cared not to save
himself.

And therefore, too, God has given him that dominion of which he is
worthy, and has proclaimed him Lord and Creator of all beings and
all worlds, past, present, and to come.

It is of him; of his obedience; of his unselfishness, that Passion
Week speaks to us. It tell us of the mind of Christ, and says, 'Let
this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.'