Grain dies into glory; Word’s flesh-suffering; hypostatic union needed

…and again: “Jesus answers them saying: The hour has come so that the Son of Man may be glorified; amen, amen, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falling into the earth dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” And it is not doubtful that the whole world has been saved, Emmanuel having died for it. Yet we say this: how was he glorified by dying? And yet the matter rather has a stigma of weakness — which is why it is also called a despising of shame, having become obedient unto death. But perhaps you will say that he has been glorified through the resurrection. The word holds rightly and is true. Did he then return to life divinely rather than humanly? But I think divinely. So when the Word from God himself is said to suffer in flesh, let us not be ashamed of the suffering; for the end has glory, and this is God-befitting.

That there is one Son of God and Lord, Jesus Christ. From Romans. “I myself with the mind serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin. So there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus; for the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus freed me from the law of sin and of death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of flesh of sin and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh, so that the just requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not according to flesh but according to Spirit.” For flesh and Spirit confessedly fight each other… But now in Christ what stands against has been loosed… For God has sent his own Son in the likeness of flesh of sin so that he might condemn sin in the flesh — then how is the Word’s becoming-flesh not exceedingly necessary? For thus sin has also been condemned in our flesh. But if the Word has not become flesh, the things concerning us have remained uncorrected… So we say the Word’s union with the flesh according to hypostasis is necessary — and not only the one in persons and according to will, or a bare conjunction, as some say.