d which is unity itself+.[3] +Nothing+ (_muden_, implying
of course prohibition) +in the way of+ (_kata_) +personal or party
spirit;[4] rather+ (_alla_), +as regards your+ (_tu_) +humblemindedness+,
your view of yourselves learnt at the feet of your Saviour, +reckon[5]
each other superior to yourselves+; as assuredly you will do, with a
logic true to the soul, when each sees himself, the personality he knows
best, in the light of eternal holiness

Ver. 4. and love. +Not to your own+ interests +look+ (_skopountes_),
+each circle of you, but each circle[6] to those+

Ver. 5. +of others also. Have this mind+ (_phroneite_) in +you+, this
moral attitude in each soul, +which+ was, and is,[7] +also in Christ
Jesus+, (in that eternal Messiah whom I name already with His human Name,
JESUS; for in the will of His Father, and in the unity of His own Person,
it was as it were His Name already

Ver. 6. from everlasting,) +who in God's manifested Being[8]
subsisting+,[9] _seeming_ divine, because He _was_ divine, in the full
sense of Deity, in that eternal world, +reckoned it no plunderer's
prize[10] to be on an equality with God+;[11] no, He viewed His
possession of the fulness of the Eternal Nature as securely and
inalienably His own, and _so_ He dealt with it for our sakes with a
sublime and _restful_ remembrance of others; far from thinking of it as
for Himself alone, as one who claimed it unlawfully would have done,

Ver. 7. +He rather (_alla_) made Himself void by His own act+,[12] void
of the manifestation and exercise of Deity as it was His on the
throne,[13] +taking[14] Bond-servant's+ (_doulou_) +manifested being+
(_morphe_), that is to say, the veritable Human Nature which, as a
creaturely nature, is essentially bound to the service of the Creator,
the _bond_service of the Father; +coming to be+, becoming, _genomenos_,
+in men's similitude+, so truly human as not only to be but _to seem_
Man, accepting all the conditions involved in a truly human _exterior_,

Ver. 8. "pleased _as Man with men_ to appear." +And+ then, further,
+being found+, as He offered Himself to view, +in respect of guise+
(_scheati_), in respect of outward shape, and habit, and address, +as
Man+, He went further, He stooped yet lower, even from Humanity to Death;
+He humbled Himself, in becoming obedient+,[15] obedient to Him whose
Bondservant He now was as Man, +to the length[16] of death, aye+ (_de_),
+death of Cross+, that death of unim