62. If you pronounce Him less than the Father in this respect, I cannot deny it; nevertheless, to speak in the words of Scripture, He was not begotten inferior, but “made lower,” Heb. ii. 9. that is, made inferior. And how was He “made lower,” except that, “being in the form of God, He thought it not a prey that He should be equal with God, but emptied Himself;” Phil. ii. 6, 7. not, indeed, parting with what He was, but taking up what He was not, for “He took the form of a servant.” Phil. ii. 6, 7.