Wherefore the same flesh was mortal by reason of its own nature and life-giving through its union with the Word in subsistence. And we hold that it is just the same with the deification of the will Greg. Naz., Orat. 36.; for its natural activity was not changed but united with His divine and omnipotent will, and became the will of God, made man Ibid. 35, p. 595.. And so it was that, though He wished, He could not of Himself escape St. Mark vii. 24., because it pleased God the Word that the weakness of the human will, which was in truth in Him, should be made manifest. But He was able to cause at His will the cleansing of the leper St. Matt. viii. 3., because of the union with the divine will.