Sentence examples for form of a slave from inspiring English sources

In Philippians 2 6 11 Paul states that Christ Jesus was preexistent and came to earth: he "emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness".

When he compares the Father to a statue of infinite magnitude and the Son to a smaller statue accommodated to our perceptions, he begins as though the visible were a metaphor for the invisible, but ends by quoting Philippians 2.7 on the manifestation of Christ in the form of a slave (Princ. 1.2.6).

"Jesus did not count equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave... .. Now we're down on our knees.

Paul also writes, "Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who... emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness" (Philippians 3).

Out of love for us, Jesus Christ stripped himself of his divine glory, emptied himself, took on the form of a slave and humbled himself even to death, death on a cross.

After Mary is helped by a young white couple, she sleeps on their barn floor, and memories of her past play out in the form of a stone-hearted slave owner, his martinet wife, and the indomitable will and spirit of those they consider simply as chattels.

Using this metric, we designate the sensor with the comparatively large number of neighbor nodes as a CH and form a slave cluster of the master cluster with its crowded LNs.

The scheme has attracted growing criticism in recent weeks with opponents describing it as a form of slave labour because young people worked for nothing, while keeping their benefits.

Timber felling for lumber and firewood was another form of hard slave labour, as in the Gulag.

Yet another form of brutal slave labour was rowing in the galleys, particularly those that belonged to the Ottoman Empire and sailed the Mediterranean.

Although these people saw the devil in the form of the slave trade, they brought their God across the sea with them the Ifa religion, which is generally referred to as the "Yoruba religion" today.