Schwane, ii.
271, says, ‘Though we reject that part of it which attributes a
natural impassibility to the body of Christ, yet Hilary’s
exposition presents one truth more clearly than the earlier Fathers had
stated it, by giving to the doctrine of the representative satisfaction
of Christ its reasonable explanation as a free service of
satisfaction. He conceives rightly of the Lord’s whole life
on earth, with all its troubles and infirmities, as a sacrifice of free
love on the part of the God-Man; it is only his closer definition of
this sacrifice that is inaccurate.…Hilary lays especial stress
upon the freedom of the Lord s acceptance of death.’ He
quotes Trin. x. 11.