The meaning of 'Who'

The sword of his help; for it is carried on both sides. For having gone to war against Christ, his enemies, and hating him, they did not stand against him in the war, as if they had decided to lead him away to be crucified and to bring all other things against him insultingly.

These things will cease from saying, those who have desire toward Christ and having rightly received the providence, not seeing the intention according to which the Father, not sparing his own Son, delivered him to those standing and gathered against him, having learned the salvation having been made straight through his death, not only of the Father having delivered him on behalf of us but also of himself having delivered himself unto this; for he gave his soul a ransom for many.

Having removed the debt through his cleansing, and the following things as of the psalm. Thinking that he had departed from the things promised to him, and they say these things. For they supposed him to be abolished from the cleansing, thinking he did not work through his blood; upon which they think also that his throne has been broken down to the earth, the days of his throne being shortenededed.

But nothing of this sort will happen concerning his throne, since God has established him as the days of heaven, not as the things that are earthly. But also God remains in opposition to himself if the throne of Christ is as the sun and the completed moon for the age. For having seen him having been crucified and having suffered, they saw him having received the kingdom at the end, his throne having been diminished and overturned, and having taken upon himself the shame upon the cross, concerning which the apostle says: He endured the cross, despising the shame, instead of the joy set before him, having risen from the dead, no longer being abolished by the cleansing but perfecting and working, him removing the sin of the world, according to the said thing: having made a cleansing of sins, he sat at the right hand of majesty in the high places, being raised up and having firmly established the throne, remaining for a long time and an eternal age (Ps 88:47-48a).

Remember, we who are saying these things, what the substance is. For we are unstable and changeable being autonomous; therefore also we fear lest we be drawn into impiety. O God, looking quickly upon your mercy...

For the expressed anger is not of such a nature as to be merely extinguished. The term 'hypostasis' may not signify the essence, as we have interpreted, but rather that which one is able to sustain according to the underlying state.

Since 'who' signifies many things, let us observe what is meant by the various uses of 'Who is man?'. For 'who' sometimes signifies a person, as in 'Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord, and who shall stand in his holy place?' (Ps 24:3). It also denotes the rare or exceptional, as in 'Who is the faithful and prudent servant?' and 'Who is wise and understands these things?' and 'Who is discerning and will know these?'. The word is even applied to the incapable in 'Who knows the Lord?' and 'Who became his counselor?' and 'Who gathered the winds in his bosom?' and 'Who turned the water into a garment?'. The word is also applied to the insignificant, as if he were no one, in 'If God is for us, who is against us?' (Rom 8:31) and 'Behold, the Lord helps me; who will harm me?' (Ps 118:7). It is also applied to one called by a specific name by some, but by others as an individual or a single unit, as in 'a certain noble man'.

Here it is possible to grasp the upcoming passage regarding 'no one': 'For who is the man that shall live and not see death?' (Ps 39:5) instead of 'No one'. And if the discourse is about common death, no one truly lives and does not see death, according to what is said, 'For death passed upon all men, of whom all sinned' (Rom 5:12), and 'For it is appointed unto men once to die' (Heb 9:27). For 'who' is equivalent to 'all men'. No one is a man, since every man is a mortal creature, and every man having fallen from divinity, as in 'You die as men' and 'Wherefore your wrath and indignation, are ye not as men and walk after the manner of men?'. For none of such people have become unhistorical regarding death by sinning; therefore it is said, 'Who is the man that shall live?'. For such a thing is a god, among those called gods through participation in divinity. For they alone shall not see death, since they live by transforming into eternal life; a life which Hades shall not be able to consume or hold, as God saves such people from the hand of Hades.

These things indeed will be said, while we remain upon the literal sense; but if...