Philippians, treats of the subject of Christ’s humiliation, but from a different point of view. Paul exhibits that humiliation as something voluntarily endured by Christ in a spirit of condescension and self-renunciation, which he exhorts his readers to admire and imitate. The writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews, on the other hand, regards the same humiliation as an experience to which Christ was subjected, and which, as apparently incongruous to His intrinsic dignity, demands explanation. The point