Wherefore, although Cf.
Epiph., Hæres. 69; Greg. Nyss., Contr. Eunom., II.
p. 55. He died as man and His Holy Spirit
was severed from His immaculate body, yet His divinity remained
inseparable from both, I mean, from His soul and His body, and so even
thus His one hypostasis was not divided into two hypostases. For
body and soul received simultaneously in the beginning their being in
the subsistence ὑπόστασις,
hypostasis. of the Word,
and although they were severed from one another by death, yet they
continued, each of them, having the one subsistence of the Word.
So that the one subsistence of the Word is alike the subsistence of the
Word, and of soul and body. For at no time had either soul or
body a separate subsistence of their own, different from that of the
Word, and the subsistence of the Word is for ever one, and at no time
two. So that the subsistence of Christ is always one. For,
although the soul was separated from the body topically, yet
hypostatically they were united through the Word.