{The form of a servant} (morph(886e) doulou). He took the
characteristic attributes (morph(886e) as in verse  6 ) of a slave.
His humanity was as real as his deity. {In the likeness of men}
(en homoi(936d)ati anthr(9370)(936e)). It was a likeness, but a real
likeness (Kennedy), no mere phantom humanity as the Docetic
Gnostics held. Note the difference in tense between huparch(936e)
(eternal existence in the morph(885c) of God) and genomenos
(second aorist middle participle of ginomai, becoming, definite
entrance in time upon his humanity).