To say the same of the death of Paul, was obviously unscriptural: it was, then, essential to believe the physical nature of Christ to be different from that of Paul.

If otherwise, death was due to Jesus as the lot of nature: how could such death have anything to do with our salvation?
On this ground the Unitarian doctrine was utterly untenable: I could see nothing between my own view and a total renunciation of the _authority of the doctrines_ promulgated by Paul and John.
Nevertheless, my own view seemed mere and more unmeaning the more closely it was interrogated.

When I ascribed death to Christ, what did death mean?
and what or whom did I suppose to die?
Was it man that died, or God?
If man only, how was that wonderful, or how did it concern us?
Besides;--persons die, not natures: a _nature_ is only a collection of properties: if Christ was one person, all Christ died.

Did, then, God die, and man remain alive! For God to become non-existent is an unimaginable absurdity.

But is this death a mere change of state, a renunciation of earthly life?
Still it remains unclear how the parting with mere human life could be to one who possesses divine life either an atonement or a humiliation.