So Hippolytus Adv. Beron. et
Hel. Fragm. i. speaks of the
Son Incarnate as being “at one and the same time Infinite God and
finite Man, having the nature (οὐσίαν) of each in
perfection:” and again, “There has been effected a
certain inexpressible and irrefragable union of the two (the Godhead
and the Manhood) into one subsistence (ὑπόστασιν).”