You may be interested in a conjecture of mine in a post from a while back about Jesus being a slave, bolstered by evidence from another post and given some follow-up in yet another. Oh, and another again which depends on the basic observation.Jax wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:59 amTo back peddle this statement a bit. David Bentley Hart in his New Testament has Philippians 2:6-8 as "Who, subsisting in God's form, did not deem being on equal terms with God a thing to be grasped, but instead emptied himself, taking a slave's form, coming to be in a likeness of human beings; and, being found as a human being in shape, he reduced himself, becoming obedient all the way to death, and a death by a cross."
ETA: 1 Peter 2.13-24 discussing Christ's attitude and behavior in the context of masters and slaves (instead of the immediately preceding context of kings and subjects) especially strikes my eye as a parallel to Paul discussing Jesus' attitude and behavior in terms of him being a slave.