Annotation CXXVI

”My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” — Matthew 27:46

Whether the divinity was separated from the humanity of the dying Christ.

Hilary, canon 33 on Matthew, seems to write that the divinity withdrew from the humanity of the dying Christ, when he says: “But the cry to God is the voice of the body, attesting the separation of the Word of God departing from it. Finally, why he is forsaken, he cries out, saying, ‘My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?’ But he is forsaken because he was a man, to be brought through even to death.” In this opinion Ambrose too is reckoned to be, in book 10 of the commentaries on Luke. Consult Annotation 164 of this book.