expressed more vividly than by Paul in Philippians 2:5–8: “Have this mind among yourselves which is yours in Christ Jesus,” he says. The incarnate Christ followed a path of obedience and humiliation, leading to the cruel and—especially for those in Philippi, a Roman colony—shameful death of the cross. He looked not to his own interests but to those of others. This loving self-sacrificial obedience was the fruit of his decision in eternity, expressing the indivisible will of God in its hypostatic