"the Lord, i.e., God the Father, 'will execute his brief
word' [Rom 9:28: verbum breviatum faciet
Dominus], i.e., [his] incarnate [Word], because the Son of God emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave. He is called 'emptied' (exinanitum) or 'brief' (breviatum), not because anything was
subtracted from the fullness or greatness of his divinity, but because he
assumed our thinness and smallness [nostrum exilitatem et parvitatem
suscepit]."
St. Thomas Aquinas, Super Rom. 9, lec. 5 (no. 805), as trans.
"He emptied himself.
But since he was filled with the divinity, did he empty himself of that? No, because he remained what he was; and what
he was not, he assumed. But this must be
understood in regard to the assumption of what he had not, and not according to
the assumption of what he had. For just
as he descended from heaven, not that he ceased to exist in heaven, but because
he began to exist in a new way on earth, so he also emptied himself, not by
putting off his divine nature, but by assuming a human nature."
Super Phil. 2, lec. 2 (no. 57), on p. 842.
"He is not said to have ‘emptied himself’ by diminishing his
divine nature, but by assuming our deficient nature."
In de div. nom. 2, lec. 5 (no. 207), on p. 853.
"the Word of God emptied himself, that is to say, was made
small, not by the loss of his own greatness, but by the assumption of human
smallness."
SCG IV, ch. 34 (no. 3715), on p. 855.
"He is said to have emptied himself, not by losing his
fullness, but because he took our littleness upon himself."
ST III.57.2.ad 2, on pp. 855-856.
"'He emptied himself':
he made himself small not by putting off greatness, but by taking on
smallness."
Super Gal. 4, lec. 2 (no. 203), on p. 856.
"he emptied himself:
not that he abandoned his great dignity, but he hid it by taking on our
smallness".
Super Ioan. 13, lec. 2 (no. 1746), on p. 857.
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