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the authorities of the Holy Fathers. The communicatio idiomatum (which the Church calls this) is not a real effusion of Omnipotence and Omnipresence into the human nature: but it is a manner of speaking that ascribes the properties of the natures to the united being or person, through words by which the concrete or person is designated. But if properties are spoken of concerning the natures, that is, in the abstract, which is done through distinctive particles, then we accommodate to each nature its own, not an alien or contrary, property. Therefore your real communication is false, and your locutions are false when you assign Omnipotence to the Humanity. Let us therefore hear Scripture speaking. It indeed attributes human things to God. As when God, who is invisible, 1 Tim 6:16, was made visible in the flesh, 1 Tim 3:16. He who has no blood, nor can even suffer or die, acquired the Church with his own blood, Acts 20:28. He who did not descend or ascend: yet He both descended and ascended above all heavens, Eph 4:8, 9, 10, and was received up into glory, 1 Tim 3:16. Thus it is said: God was born of the Virgin Mary. Likewise, He progressed in wisdom, He is ignorant of the last day, He was not with Lazarus who was dying, He left the world, He came after John, He was crucified, etc.
But as often as Scripture wishes to speak about the natures, it conveniently designates that to which the property belongs that it attributes to it, as, God was born of the seed of David (not according to both natures but) according to the flesh, Rom 1:3. Likewise, Christ, who is God to be praised forever, Rom 9:5. He is of the Jews (but) according to the flesh, and was put to death (but) in the flesh, 1 Pet 3:18. He suffered in the flesh, 1 Pet 4:1.
Conversely, it attributes divine works to the Deity, differently than you wished to argue above, as, He was quickened in the spirit, 1 Pet 3:18. Likewise, That son of God was declared omnipotent (but) by the life-giving spirit, Rom 1:3.
In turn, the same Holy Scripture hands down divine properties to man: The Man Jesus is the true God, 1 John 5:20. God to be praised above