Phil 2:6–11 is Pauline confessional material and that Phil 2:9–11 in particular is based off of a reflection on Ps 110:1:
- On Phil 2.6-11 being an exalted Pauline prose, see: Gordon Fee, “Philippians 2:5–11: A Hymn or Exalted Prose?,” BBR 2 (1992): 29–46; Fee, Paul’s Letter to the Philippians, 39–46; Ralph Brucker, ‘Christushymnen’ oder ‘epideiktische Passagen’? Studien zum Stilwechsel im Neuen Testament und seiner Umwelt; Michael Peppard, “‘Poetry’, ‘Hymns’ and ‘Traditional Material’ in New Testament Epistles or How to Do Things with Indentations,” JSNT 30 (2008): 319–42; Benjamin Edsall and Jennifer R. Strawbridge, “The Songs we Used to Sing? Hymn ‘Traditions’ and Reception in Pauline Letters,” JSNT 37 (2015): 290–311
This passage is based off of early Christian interpretation of Ps 110:1, that its portrait of Jesus’s exaltation resembles both royal and imperial temple and throne sharing, and that these similalities contributed to widespread use of Ps 110:1 in the early Christian movement. Like Greco-Roman rulers who shared temples and thrones, Jesus shares God’s temple and throne, albeit in heavenand not on earth, because God approves of him. His celestial co-enthronement is the reward for his euergetism and piety and Jesus’s exaltation to God’stemple and throne includes the acclaima tion of him as kyrios.
