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 the cross, God died, and God cannot be imagined as suffering in such a way, nor can He die. The Patripassians were reaching out for the truth, and they almost grasped it; but they failed because they did not differentiate between the two natures in Christ, the purely human and the Divine. The limitations of Jesus were not Divine, for the Divine cannot be limited, even though it may limit itself in manifestation and usually has to do so when dealing with men.

Jesus as a person was Divine, for he was Jehovah manifesting Himself in accordance with prophecy; but he was not Divine in the limitations that were necessary to be assumed in order to manifest himself. He very evidently had two natures—a lower and purely human one, and a higher and Divine one, and a consciousness manifesting itself first on one plane and then on the other, and when it manifested itself on the higher plane, it was one with the permanent, non-fluctuating Divine consciousness.

The difference between him and us is that his higher nature was Life-in-itself, self-existent life, Jehovah, whereas our higher nature is life derived from Jehovah. As his higher nature,