Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
In fashion (sxhmati). Locative case of sxhma, from exw, to have, to hold. Bengel explains morfh by forma, omoiwma by similitudo, sxhma by habitus. Here with sxhma the contrast "is between what He is in Himself, and what He appeared in the eyes of men" (Lightfoot).
He humbled himself (etapeinwsen eauton). First aorist active of tapeinow, old verb from tapeinov. It is a voluntary humiliation on the part of Christ and for this reason Paul is pressing the example of Christ upon the Philippians, this supreme example of renunciation. See Bruce's masterpiece, The Humiliation of Christ.
Obedient (uphkoov). Old adjective, giving ear to. See Acts 7:39; II Corinthians 2:9.
Unto death (mexri qanatou). "Until death." See "until blood" (mexriv aimatov, Hebrews 12:4).
Yea, the death of the cross (qanatou de staurou). The bottom rung in the ladder from the Throne of God. Jesus came all the way down to the most despised death of all, a condemned criminal on the accursed cross.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Philippians 2:8:
Matthew 1:18
John 17:5
Acts 20:28
2 Corinthians 2:9
Galatians 4:4
Philippians 3:9
Colossians 1:15
2 Timothy 2:8
Hebrews 1:3
Hebrews 2:10
Hebrews 12:2
James 2:1
Revelation 12:11
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