Philippians 2:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Bible Comments

Who, being in the (d) form of God, (e) thought it not robbery to be (f) equal with God:

(d) Such as God himself is, and therefore God, for there is no one in all parts equal to God but God himself.

(e) Christ, that glorious and everlasting God, knew that he might rightfully and lawfully not appear in the base flesh of man, but remain with majesty fit for God: yet he chose rather to debase himself.

(f) If the Son is equal with the Father, then is there of necessity an equality, which Arrius that heretic denies: and if the Son is compared to the Father, then is there a distinction of persons, which Sabellius that heretic denies.

Philippians 2:6

6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: