We hold, further, that there are two energies Cf. Anast., De operationibus, I.; Joan. Scyth, Con. Sever. VIII., &c. in our Lord Jesus Christ. For He possesses on the one hand, as God and being of like essence with the Father, the divine energy, and, likewise, since He became man and of like essence to us, the energy proper to human nature Supr. bk. ii.: Max., Dial. cum Pyrrh..