If all energy is defined as essential movement of
some nature, as those who are versed in these matters say, where does
one perceive any nature that has no movement, and is completely devoid
of energy, or where does one find energy that is not movement of
natural power? But, as the blessed Cyril says Thes.,
xxxii., ch. 2; Act. 10, sextæ Synodi., no one in his senses could admit that
there was but one natural energy of God and His creation The
Monotheletes made much of the case of the raising of the daughter of
Jairus. See Cyril, In Joan., p. 351; Max.,
Dial. cum Pyrrh., Epist. ad Nicand., Epist. ad
Mon. Sicil.; Scholiast in Collect. cont.
Severum, ch. 20.. It is not His human nature that
raises up Lazarus from the dead, nor is it His divine power that sheds
tears: for the shedding of tears is peculiar to human nature
while the life is peculiar to the enhypostatic life. But yet they
are common the one to the other, because of the identity in
subsistence. For Christ is one, and one also is His person or
subsistence, but yet He has two natures, one belonging to His humanity,
and another belonging to His divinity. And the glory, indeed,
which proceeded naturally from His divinity became common to both
through the identity in subsistence, and again on account of His flesh
that which was lowly became common to both. For He Who is the one
or the other, that is God or man, is one and the same, and both what is
divine and what is human belong to Himself. For while His
divinity performed the miracles, they were not done apart from the
flesh, and while His flesh performed its lowly offices, they were not
done apart from the divinity. For His divinity was joined to the
suffering flesh, yet remaining without passion, and endured the saving
passions, and the holy mind was joined to the energising divinity of
the Word, perceiving and knowing what was being
accomplished.