when Christ died, his body and soul were separated, but the divinity remained joined both to his body (which remained uncorrupted for three days in the tomb) and to his rational soul (which accompanied that of the good thief into paradise). If the distinction between the divinity and the humanity is modeled in this way, Gregory argues, Christ can be said both eternally to be Christ and Lord, by virtue of “the kingdom that he had before all ages,” and to have become Christ and Lord, at the time of