circumstances this being—essence (huparchein) remains the same. Paul, I think, would not regard as possible the surrender by Christ of His divine nature. Paul’s own experience of the risen Lord was such a vital factor in the formation of his thought that, as He who had come to mean so much to him surely did not begin to exist when Jesus was born in Bethlehem, so the nature of this one did not change in essence, when He became man. He did empty Himself, though, of the glories of heaven, of the prerogatives