Now we have often said already that essence is one thing and subsistence another, and that essence signifies the common and general form εἶδος, form, class, species. of subsistences of the same kind, such as God, man, while subsistence marks the individual, that is to say, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, or Peter, Paul. Observe, then, that the names, divinity and humanity, denote essences or natures: while the names, God and man, are applied both in connection with natures, as when we say that God is incomprehensible essence, and that God is one, and with reference to subsistences, that which is more specific having the name of the more general applied to it, as when the Scripture says, Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee Ps. xlv. 7., or again, There was a certain man in the land of Uz Job i. 1., for it was only to Job that reference was made.