Faustinus: Following the example of Christ, let us empty ourselves generously!

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If he “therefore emptied himself, assuming the form of a slave,” he was not coerced but was of his own accord made the Son of Man…Therefore you have the Son expressing in himself the faith proper to humans.

Faustinus, a priest from Rome (c. 380) on Philippians 2:7 in On the Trinity I. PG 75:693A.