deity, as though deity were forsaking deity, splitting God into parts as it were. Such a hypothetical division was a fundamental Arian objection to the possibility of Jesus’ divinity. Rather, Gregory argued, [Christ] was in his own person representing us. For we were the forsaken and despised before, but now, by the sufferings of Him who could not suffer, we were taken up and saved. Similarly, he makes his own our folly and our transgressions; and says what follows in the psalm, for it is very evident