Further, these words, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me St. Matt. xxvii. 46.? He said as making our personality His own Greg. Naz., Orat. 36; Cyril, De recta fide; Athanas., Contr. Arian., bk. iv.. For neither would God be regarded with us as His Father, unless one were to discriminate with subtle imaginings of the mind between that which is seen and that which is thought, nor was He ever forsaken by His divinity: nay, it was we who were forsaken and disregarded. So that it was as appropriating our personality that He offered these prayers Greg. Nyss., Orat. 38..