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After considering the particular language of Philippians 2:5, it becomes clear that one may read this clause as containing either no verbs, a single repeated verb, or a verb and a noun referring to related concepts. In all likelihood, the most accurate interpretation of this verse is a combined reading of all three, because only by considering each interpretation can one begin to understand the multifaceted state of being it attempts to describe. Appreciating how the verse serves as an introduction into the particular way Jesus managed to enact God's will through his human existence allows one to understand how the notion of kenosis refers not only to Jesus' emptying out of his own human will in order to enact God's, but also the process which is presupposed by any Christian; that is, Jesus' existence as both God and man serves as the idealized example of the Christian life itself, such that the implied command of Philippians 2:5 is not merely an admonition to follow Jesus' example, but rather to embody the same spiritually unprecedented state of mind and being that Jesus embodies by his dual-existence as both God and man. In this way, the ideal Christian is almost a mirrored
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Hays, Richard. The moral vision of the New Testament. London: HarperCollins, 1996.
Karris, Robert. A symphony of New Testament hymns. Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 2002.
Peterson, Brian K. "Between Text & Sermon: Philippians 2:5-11." Interpretation 58
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Works Cited
Carlin, David R. "Paraphrases on the Epistles to the Corinthians, Ephesians, Philippians,
Colossians, and Thessalonians." The Review of Metaphysics 63.4 (2010): 918-9.
Hays, Richard. The moral vision of the New Testament. London: HarperCollins, 1996.
Karris, Robert. A symphony of New Testament hymns. Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 2002.
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