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The Faith of Jesus - Alonzo T. Jones

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Chapter 8<br />

His Likeness to God<br />

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in<br />

Christ <strong>Jesus</strong>; who, being in the form <strong>of</strong> God,<br />

thought it not robbery [“a thing to be seized upon<br />

and held fast”] to be equal with God: but emptied<br />

himself.”<br />

<strong>The</strong> condescension <strong>of</strong> Christ, the position <strong>of</strong><br />

Christ, and the nature <strong>of</strong> Christ, as He was in the<br />

flesh in the world, are given in the second chapter<br />

<strong>of</strong> Hebrews more fully than in any other one place<br />

in the Scriptures.<br />

But the first chapter <strong>of</strong> Hebrews comes before<br />

the second chapter and is therefore, an essential<br />

precedent <strong>of</strong> the second chapter. <strong>The</strong> first chapter<br />

must be followed, and must be understood to the<br />

second chapter in order to be able to follow and<br />

understand the second chapter.<br />

Yet in the first chapter <strong>of</strong> Hebrews, the<br />

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