CONCERNING THE TRINITY. 353 CHAPTER XXII.1 ARGuMENT. — That thesame divinemajestyisin Christ,he oncemore assertsby otherScriptures. But why, although we appear to hasten to another branch of the argument, should we pass over that passage in the apostle: " Who, although He was in the form of God, did not thinkitrobberythatHe shouldbe equalwith God ; but emptied Himself, taking up the form of a servant,being made in the likenessof men; and found in fashionas a man, He humbled Himself,becoming obedienteven unto death, even thedeathof the cross. Wherefore alsoGod hathhighly exaltedHim, and hath given Him a name which is above every name ; that in the name of Jesus every knee should be bent,of thingsin heaven,and thingsin earth,and things under the earth; and every tongue should confess that Jesus isLord, in the gloryof God the Father?"1 "Who, although He was in the form of God," he says. If Christ had been only man, He would have been spoken of as in " the image " of God, not " in the form " of God. For we know that man was made afterthe image or likeness,notafterthe form, of God. Wrho then isthatangelwho, as we have said,was made in the form of God ? But neitherdo we read of the form of God in angels,except because thisone ischief and royalabove all— the Son of God, the Word of God, the imitatorof all His Father'sworks, in that He Himself worketh even as His Father. He is(aswe have declared) in the form of God the Father. And He is reasonablyaffirmedto be in the form of God, in that He Himself, being above allthings,and having the divinepower over every creature,is also God afterthe example of the Father. Yet He obtainedthisfrom His own Father,that He should be both God of alland should be Lord, and be begotten and made known from Himself as God in the form of God the Father. He then,althoughHe was in the form of God, thought itnot robbery thatHe shouldbe equalwith 1 AccordingtoPamclius,ch.xvii. 2Phil.ii.6-11. err. — vol. ii. z