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When the Lord died on the Cross, what died? His Holy Body?

The Holy Book of 1 Peter 3:18-19 answers this question; "For Christ died for our sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the BODY but made alive by the Spirit, through whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison." His human Spirit was separated from His Holy Body but His Divine Nature was not separated, at all, either from His human Spirit or from His Holy Body. His Holy Body remained in the tomb united with His Divine Nature. As for the separation of the human Spirit from the Body, He died as a human being but He was alive with the Spirit. He had the life of the Divine Nature for which Nicodemus cried, "The all Holy, the all Powerful, the Living forever."