Gaudentius of Brescia

In his own words on Philippians

• Philippians 2:8

  He added "being found in human form" because the form of God, which is properly God himself, has never been seen by anyone.

  TREATISE 19, ON THE PRIORITY OF THE FATHER 28

• Philippians 2:9

  "Therefore," he says, "God exalted him." But who was it that was exalted? Evidently the one who underwent the torture of the cross and death. It was not God himself, who is always on high throughout.

  TREATISE 19, ON THE PRIORITY OF THE FATHER 29

• Philippians 2:9

  The "name that is above every name" is God. It is not given to God in order that he should become God. For God the Son was the Word in the beginning with the Father. But the man assumed by the Son takes on his mission. In this way the Son of God, who had always existed, remains still equally God when joined to the humanity that he received from the Virgin.

  TREATISE 19, ON THE PRIORITY OF THE FATHER 29

• Philippians 2:10

  This means that after the mystery of the passion and the triumph of the ascension he who was wholly the Son of God with that which he had consented to be for our sakes, while remaining in the glory of God the Father (which means of course in the divinity of his own nature), should be adored by all the powers in heaven, on earth and below.

  TREATISE 19, ON THE PRIORITY OF THE FATHER 30