53. Which of these three different causes of
impossibility, think you, which we have enumerated (setting aside the
fourth) can we meetly assign to the case of the Son of God? Is He
naturally insensible and immovable, like a stone? He is indeed a
stone of stumbling to the wicked, a cornerstone for the
faithful; 1
Pet. ii. 7, from Isa. xxviii. 16. but He is not
insensible, upon Whom the faithful affection of sentient peoples are
stayed. He is not an immovable rock, “for they drank of a
Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.” 1 Cor. x. 4. The work of the Father, then, is
not rendered impossible to Christ by diversity of nature.