as Lord, takes on a mind-shaping role. To be sure, the Christ hymn serves a parenetic function to exhort the readers to look not to their own interests but to the interests of others, but the hymn does not stop with verse 8. It goes on to depict God’s exaltation of Christ and the giving to him of the name of power—Lord. One cannot realistically expect to be humble simply because one assumes Christ as a model of humility. Only as Paul’s readers live in a world where the hostile powers are being subjected