Phil 2 was a Christian moralization of a deus descensus myth.5 Dibelius insisted that the salient expressions of the hymn were not of a dogmatic character since the majestic style of the hymn showed they had only a I Cited by William Barclay in Expository Times, 70 (1958), p. 4. 2 E. Lohmeyer, Kurios Jesus: Eine Untersuchung zu Phil. 2,5-11. Philippians 2:6-11 Biblical Names & Places Adam; Deliverance; Love God's Love to Us; Profession of Faith; Suffering of Christ; Confession and Forgiveness; Assurance; Atonement; Biblical Names & Places Adam; Blood of Christ; Christmas; Confession of Sin; Deliverance; Forgiveness; Freedom; Hope; Love God's Love to Us; Mercy; Profession of Faith 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,[ a] 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,[ b]being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted Philippians 2:6-11 CHARLES J. ROBBINS, C.PP.S. St. Joseph's College Rensselaer, IN 47978 In the nab Philippians 2:6-1 1 is divided into nineteen lines grouped in six On the assumption that the passage is a Christological hymn in rhythmical form, he divides it into six stanzas of three verses each. The verses are approximately equal in WEYMOUTH: Christ-Story of Philippians 2:6-11 319 (i) that Philippians 2:6-11 should no longer be regarded as an early Christian hymn incorporated by Paul in his letter to the Philippians, but instead is best understood as two sentences of prose narrative, written by the apostle himself, and which may better be described as the 'Christ-story'; Philippians 2: A Hymn Celebrating Christ. In the second chapter of Philippians, Paul continues the encouraging message that he had begun in chapter 1. He opens with an appeal to his community to be of the "one mind," grounded in love (v. 2). Paul tells the story of Christ in a remarkable passage (vv. 6-11), shaped in balanced cadences The text is based on the confession of faith that Paul quotes in Philippians 2:6-11, which may well have been an early Christian hymn. Stanza 1 announces the triumph of the ascended Christ to whom "every knee should bow" (Phil. 2: 10). In stanza 2 Christ is the "mighty Word" (see John 1:1-4) through whom "creation sprang at once to sight." Since we have no widely accepted, that Phil. 2.6-11 was originalIy a Hebraic or traces or extant vestiges of Christian-Jewish primitive literature of the Aramaic Christian-Jewish hymn, translated perhaps by Paul himself, hymn kind,18 we prefer, taking a less speculative path, to think that is also arguable. 7NjJX.