… Theodoret (in Dial. 3) points out another mystery. Just as here the ram [offered as a substitute for Isaac in Genesis 22:13] bled and died, while Isaac, the only begotten son of Abraham, rested, so on Good Friday the human nature in the person of Jesus Christ bled, suffered, and at last died, while, as Irenaeus says, the divine nature rested during this work and did not forcibly drive off the suffering and death from the form of His adopted humility, but set aside His majesty until the holy day of Easter. Yet His majesty was not idle, but gave the power and strength to His human nature to accomplish the great work of redemption with success, for these distresses would have been impossible for a mere mortal to stand. A normal man would have disintegrated. That is why the Lord Jesus says, “My right hand (My almighty divine nature) had to help Me (Is. 63:5*). On this basis St. Peter says that Christ “was put to death according to the flesh” (1 ep. 3:18) and “suffered for us in the flesh” (4:1_
* “Right hand” perhaps from Is. 62:8; cf. 48:13, etc.; but Hebrew, Luther’s Bible: “arm”
Valerius Herberger The Great Works of God: Parts Three and Four: The Mysteries of Christ in the Book of Genesis, Chapters 16-50 110-111