both the divinity and the humanity, died;

They further say: “God Himself did not die; rather, the one whom Mary bore did die in respect to the substance of his humanity—for he is a perfect god by the substance of his divinity and a perfect man by the substance of his humanity; he possesses the will of the divinity and the will of the humanity, and he is one single person—we do not speak of two persons, lest we be forced to posit four hypostases.”

He said:
“These people have thus come to the very same conclusion reached by the Jacobites when they asserted that Mary gave birth to God—exalted is Allah above what the wrongdoers claim—

and they say: ‘The Messiah—a name which every Christian agrees embraces both the divinity and the humanity—died, while God did not die. How, then, can He be dead yet not have died, standing and sitting at one and the same time? Is there any real difference between the two doctrines except the disagreement over the natures?’ ”

He said:
“I then examined the statement of the Nestorians and found them saying: ‘The Messiah is two persons and two natures sharing a single will; the nature of divinity that the Messiah possesses is other than the nature of his humanity, and when the nature of divinity united with humanity in its own person…’”}