Gaius Marius Victorinus, on Phil 2:7

“But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and in habit found as a man.”

“How could he possibly have taken only human form and not human substance? For he put on the flesh and was in the flesh and suffered in the flesh. This is the mystery and the means of our salvation.… What therefore does it mean, "he emptied himself?" That the universal Logos was not universal in his actual being as the logos of the flesh and becoming flesh. Therefore he did not merely pretend to become a man but became a man.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.