Wayne Grudem refutes this interpretation: No recognized teacher in the first 1,800 years of church history, including those who were native speakers of Greek, thought that “emptied himself” in Philippians 2:7 meant the Son of God gave up some of his divine attributes. Second, . . . the text does not say that Christ “emptied himself of some powers”. . . . Third, the text does describe what Jesus did by “emptying”: he did not do it by giving up any of his attributes but rather by “taking the form of a servant,” that is, by coming to live as a man. . . . The context interprets the “emptying” as
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