Hence follows also the error that God the Word, as it were some part of the Divine power extending itself in unbroken continuation, dwelt within that man who received from Mary the beginning of his being, and endowed him with the power of Divine working: though that man lived and moved by the nature of his own soul The preaching of Sabellius, cf. I. 16, protensio sit potius quam descensio, ‘an extension rather than a descent.’.