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1 BOOK IV — CHAPTER 7: In answer to those who enquire whether the holy Mother of God bore two natures, and whether two natures hung upon the Cross.

2 The divine nature is uncreate, but all things that come after the divine nature are created. In the divine and uncreated nature, therefore, the property of being unbegotten is contemplated in the Father, that of being begotten in the Son, and that of procession in the Holy Spirit. Accordingly the holy Mother of God bore a subsistence revealed in two natures; being begotten on the one hand, by reason of its divinity, of the Father timelessly, and, at last, on the other hand, being incarnated of her in time and born in the flesh.

3 Christ then, since He is in two natures, suffered and was crucified in the nature that was subject to passion. For it was in the flesh and not in His divinity that He hung upon the Cross. And so two natures were not crucified but Christ was crucified in the flesh, was crucified in the flesh, suffered in the flesh, while His divinity continued to be impassible.