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After Christ was risen from the dead He laid aside all His
passions, I mean His corruption or hunger or thirst or sleep or
weariness or such like. For, although He did taste food after the
resurrection, yet He did not do so because it was a law of His nature
(for He felt no hunger), but in the way of economy, in order that
He might convince us of the reality of the resurrection, and that it
was one and the same flesh which suffered and rose again. But He laid
aside none of the divisions of His nature, neither body nor spirit,
but possesses both the body and the soul intelligent and reasonable,
volitional and energetic, and in this wise He sits at the right hand
of the Father, using His will both as God and as man in behalf of
our salvation, energising in His divine capacity to provide for and
maintain and govern all things, and remembering in His human capacity
the time He spent on earth, while all the time He both sees and knows
that He is adored by all rational creation. For His Holy Spirit
knows that He is one in substance with God the Word, and shares as
Spirit of God and not simply as Spirit the worship accorded to Him.
Moreover, His ascent from earth to heaven, and again, His descent
from heaven to earth, are manifestations of the energies of His
circumscribed body. For He shall so come again to you, saith he, in
like manner as ye have seen Him go into Heaven.
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