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The New Beacon Bible Commentary is an engaging, indispensable reference tool to aid individuals in every walk of life in the study and meditation of God’s Word. Written from the Wesleyan theological perspective, it offers insight and perceptive scholarship to help you unlock the deeper truths of Scripture and garner an awareness of the history, culture, and context attributed to each book of...

This does not mean that Christ gave up equality with God in order to take on the form of a slave. Nor did he exchange one “form” for another—a divine form for a human one. On the contrary, “it is in his self-emptying and his humiliation that he reveals what God is like, and it is through his taking the form of a slave that we see ‘the form of God’ ” (Hooker 2000, 508, emphasis Hooker’s; see Wright 1991, 84; Augustine, cited by Edwards 1999, 242). This mirrors the emphasis of the Fourth Gospel: It
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