Kenosis and exaltation; Colossians image and firstborn

From Philippians. “Let this be minded in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God a thing to be seized, but emptied himself, taking a slave’s form, becoming in humans’ likeness, and being found in fashion as a human he humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even death of a cross; therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name above every name, so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow of things in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Understand how he says that the God-Word, existing in the form and equality of God, did not consider equality with God a thing to be seized. For having being by nature in equality with the Father, he emptied himself, and taking a slave’s form—that is, having become human—and being found as it were in our form, he humbled himself into emptying. And since he also endured the cross itself, it says he is exalted, and that the name above every name has been given him so that every knee should bow and every tongue confess to him. How then does the one in God’s form and equality let himself down into emptying, and after this is said to be exalted? Is not Christ’s mystery most evident? For being God by nature he became human in humiliation and lowliness, and having become as we are, he ascends again into his own glory even with flesh. And being exalted would befit the economy, not rather the Word’s nature itself. So there is one Christ, God in humanity, and with the humanity remaining what he was.

From Colossians. “Giving thanks to the Father who made us fit for the portion of the lot of the saints in the light, who rescued us from the authority of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love, in whom we have the redemption, the forgiveness of sins; who is the image of the invisible God, firstborn of all creation, because in him all things were created… and he is before all and all things hold together in him, and he is the head of the body, the church; who is beginning, firstborn from the dead, so that he might become in all things himself first, because in him all the fullness was pleased to dwell and through him to reconcile all things to himself, making peace through the blood of his cross…”