Philippians 2:8-11

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 2:5-11

A Description Of The Pathway Of Humility And Selflessness Followed By Jesus Christ, And Its Final Glorious Consequence (Philippians 2:5-11 ). Paul has previously emphasised ‘the Gospel’ (Philippians 1:5; Philippians 1:27 (twice)), but now he portrays it in all its fullness. It is that we can and should follow Jesus Christ in denying ourselves, taking up the cross and following Him (Matthew 16:24; Mark 8:34), entering personally into His humiliation and death, and subsequently into His... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 2:8

‘And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even to death, yes, the death of the cross.’ In the same way as Jesus had done they were to choose the way of humility, deliberately electing in their minds to be ‘crucified with Christ’ (Galatians 2:20), to as it were die with Him on the cross, reckoning themselves as dead to sin. This was to be the end of all selfish ambition, of any sense of superiority, of any desire to be exalted over others. They were to die to... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 2:9-11

‘Wherefore also God highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name, that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.’ And they were intended to recognise that the consequence for them would be that just as God highly exalted Jesus, and gave Him great honour, so God would exalt them in a similar way... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Philippians 2:5-11

Php_2:5-11 . The Kenosis and the Exaltation.— The word Kenosis has become a technical term in Christian theology for the self-emptying of Christ. Its origin in that relation is derived from the present important passage, where we read that He “ emptied (Gr. ekenô sen) himself” ( Php_2:7 ). The previous verses leading up to this passage indicate its spirit; the example of Christ is to be cited in order to enforce the duty of humility and the opposite to self-assertion. Paul would have his... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Philippians 2:8

To be found is a mere Hebraism, not unusual in the New Testament, not importing auy question of the thing, but only the thing certainly happening beyond expectation. It notes here, not his being apprehended of the soldiers when betrayed by Judas, being before his humble obedience, but his being, and really appearing to be, (as the Greek word is elsewhere used, Philippians 3:9; Genesis 5:24; 2 Corinthians 5:3; Galatians 2:17; Hebrews 11:5, with 1 Peter 1:7), as a man, simply considered, among... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Philippians 2:9

Wherefore; some take this particle illatively, connoting the consequent of Christ’s exaltation, upon his antecedent humiliation, as elsewhere, John 10:17; Acts 20:26; Hebrews 3:7; 2 Peter 1:10; the apostle showing the sequel of his sufferings to be glory, according to that of Luke 24:26. This the Ethiopic version favours. Christ respecting not himself, but us, and our good, the glory that he had eternally, but veiled for a time, emerging (as the sun out of a cloud) upon his finishing the work... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Philippians 2:10

At the name of Jesus; in the old translation by bishops in Queen Elizabeth’s time, (and some say in the manuscripts of this), it is in the name. However, in ours now, it is not appositively, at the name Jesus; but constructively, of Jesus, intimating, that the power, glory, and majesty of him who hath that name, unto which every knee is bowed, is that name which is above every name; which would not hold true, if the name were taken for the very word Jesus, that (as before) being common to... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Philippians 2:11

By tongue, not only every language, people, and nation is meant; because it is to be understood, as before particularized, of angels as well as men, for though angels properly, and by nature, want tongues, (as well as knees, which are both here joined, and must not be severed, in the worship given to Christ), yet in their manner of speaking to men, under an extraordinary dispensation, they may use them, (or that which is equivalent), 1 Corinthians 13:1; and, in a way proper to them, can... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Philippians 2:5-8

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESPhilippians 2:5. Let this mind be in you.—The apostle’s word reminds us that he had already counselled his readers to be likeminded amongst themselves. “Each to each, and all to Christ,” this verse seems to say. What follows—to Philippians 2:11—is the very marrow of the gospel.Philippians 2:6. Who, being in the form of God.—R.V. margin, “being originally.” Form here implies not the external accidents, but the essential attributes. Similar to this, but not so... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Philippians 2:9-11

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESPhilippians 2:9. Highly exalted.—A word much stronger than those, e.g., in the Acts, which describe the raising up of the murdered Lord of life. We trace the descent step by step to the last rung of the ladder; by one stupendous act (Romans 1:4) God graced His Son with unique honour and dignity (Ephesians 1:21).Philippians 2:10. That at the name of Jesus.—Not at the mention of the name Jesus, but in the name of Jesus. For illustration of the phrase see Christ’s own... read more

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