66. So the Apostle moulding our ignorant and
haphazard ideas into conformity with truth says of this mystery of the
faith, For He was crucified through weakness but He liveth through
the power of God 2 Cor. xiii. 4.. Preaching
the Son of Man and Son of God, Man through the Divine Plan, God through
His eternal nature, he says, that He Who was crucified through weakness
is He Who lives through the power of God. His weakness arises
from the form of a servant, His nature remains because of the
form of God. He took the form of a servant, though He was
in form of God: therefore there can be no doubt as to the mystery
according to which He both suffered and lived. There existed in
Him both weakness to suffer, and power of God to give life: and
hence He Who suffered and lived cannot be more than One, or other than
Himself.