means to become powerless, or to be emptied of significance.79 Here it stands in direct antithesis to the “empty glory” of v. 3, and functions in the same way as the metaphorical “he became poor” in 2 Cor 8:9. Rather than doing anything on the basis of “empty glory,” Christ on the contrary “emptied himself,” or as the KJV has it (memorably), “he made himself of no reputation,”80 whose sense the NIV has captured with its “made himself nothing.” As Wright put it well, “The real humiliation of the incarnation