48. But are not, in this way, the two natures in Christ separated from one another, if the manhood is not wherever the Godhead is?

Not at all, for since the Godhead is incomprehensible and everywhere present 1) it must follow that it is indeed beyond the bounds of the manhood which it has assumed, but is yet nonetheless in the same also, and remains personally united to it. 2)

1) Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? Acts 7:49.

Can one hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord. Jer. 23:24.

2) For in him dwelleth the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Col. 2:9.

And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. John 3:13.

And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him. John 11:15.

* He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. Matt. 28:6.

* Nathaniel said unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee. when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee. John 1:48

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