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Translations and Free Renderings from the Old and New Testaments
GA 41a

Translated by Steiner Online Library

Philippians

Philippians 2:6 NZ 224 (1910?)

Ὃς ἐν μορφῇ Θεοῦ ὑπάρχων, οὐχ ἁρπαγμὸν ἡγήσατο τὸ εἶναι ἴσα Θεῷ

made no gain of it, being in the form of God, he did not consider it robbery to be equal with God.

ὑπάρχων = he had attained the divinity

since he had already ascended to the divinity, he did not consider it contrary to his desire to remain in equality with God,

Philipper

Philipper 2, 6 NZ 224 (1910?)

Ὃς ἐν μορφῇ Θεοῦ ὑπάρχων, οὐχ ἁρπαγμὸν ἡγήσατο τὸ εἶναι ἴσα Θεῷ

machte sich nichts daraus da er in der Gestalt Gottes war, hielt er es nicht für Raub zu sein wie Gott.

ὑπάρχων = er hatte die Gottheit erreicht

da er schon zur Gottheit aufgestiegen war, hielt er es doch nicht für seinem Wunsch widerstrebend, in der Gleichheit mit Gott zu bleiben,