Глава XLIV. Об ипостасном

The name "hypostatic" also sometimes denotes simple being. In this sense, we call hypostatic not only pure substance, but also accident. However, the latter, strictly speaking, is not hypostatic, but heterohypostatic. Sometimes it means a self-existent hypostasis, i.e. individual. However, the latter in the strict sense is not something hypostatic, but is the hypostasis itself and is called so. In the proper sense, hypostatic is that which does not exist in itself, but is contemplated in hypostases: thus the appearance or nature of people is not contemplated in its own hypostasis, but in Peter, Paul and other human hypostases - or that which is united with another, substantially different, into something whole and forms one complex hypostasis. Thus, a person is composed of soul and body, and neither soul nor body, taken separately, are called hypostases, but hypostatic; that which is formed by the union of both is called their hypostasis, for hypostasis in the proper sense is what exists in itself and independently. In addition, a nature is called hypostatic if it has been assumed by another hypostasis and received its being in it. Hence the flesh of the Lord, which did not exist independently at any point in time, is not a hypostasis, but rather something hypostatic; for, being perceived by the hypostasis of God the Word, she exists in her and had, and has her as her hypostasis. You might be interested in: