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3GG THE HISTORY OF HERESIES,
unius, Filium suum Jesum suscitantis, factum cst, ut Jesus qui
dcsierat essc homo vivens, et conscqucnter Filius Dei, iterum
viveret deinceps non moriturus." This error springs from that
false supposition we have already examined, for supposing that
Jesus Christ was the Son of God subsisting in three Persons, that
is the Son of the Trinity by an operation ad extra, he was then
a mere man, and as by death he ceased to be a living man, he
also ceased to be the Son of God subsisting in three Persons ;
because if Jesus Christ were the Son of God, as first Person of
the Trinity, then in him was the Word, which, being hypostati-
cally united to his soul and body, could never be separated
from him, even when his soul was by death separated from his
body.
22. Supposing, then, that Jesus Christ, dying, ceased to be
the Son of God, Bcrruycr must admit that in those three days
in which our Lord s body was separated from his soul, the Di
vinity was separated from his body and soul. Let us narrow the
proposition. Christ, he says,
because the Word assumed his
was made the Son of God, not
humanity, but because the Word
was united to his humanity, and hence, he says, as in the
sepulchre he ceased to be a living man, his soul being separated
from his body, he was no longer the Son of God, and, therefore,
the Word ceased to be united with his humanity. Nothing,
however, can be more false than this, for the Word assumed and
hypostatically and inseparably united to himself in unity of
Person the soul and body of Jesus Christ, and hence when our
Lord died, and his most holy body was laid in the tomb, the
Divinity of the Word could not be separated either from the
body or the soul. This truth has been taught by St. Athana-
"
sius : (2) Cum Deitas neque Corpus in sepulchro dcsereret,
ncqno ab Anima in inferno scpararctur."
St. Gregory of Nyssa
writes : (3)
"
Deus qui totum homincm per suam cum illo conjunctionem
in naturam Divinam mutavcrat, mortis sempore a ncutra
illius, quam semel assumpserat, parte recessit ;" and
says (4) :
" Cum
Filium Dei dicimus et Carncm, qua3 sola sepulta est."
St. Augustin
credimus Dei Filium, qui sepultus est, profecto
(2) St. Athanasius, contra Apollinar. (3) St. Greg. Nyss. Orat. 1 in Christ.
/. 1, w. 15. Resur.
(4) St. Aug. Tract 78, in Joan. w. 2.