his essential nature, his true soul, was Jehovah, when he had put off forever his earthly limitations by "glorifying" or making them Divine, he was wholly Divine, but possessing a Divine Human nature which is infinite and makes permanent his residence with men. "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, their God." (Rev. 21:3.)
It was the lower, purely human nature, that suffered, and it was merely the material body that died. The death of that body did not affect the indwelling Divine, nor was it the Divine that suffered, but the human consciousness on the still existing limited human plane of consciousness. It was this consciousness that cried out on the cross: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!" It was about at this time that the purely human, limited body, with its planes of consciousness, was put off forever, and the Divine Human plane took its place, so that God forever dwells directly with us.
Sabellius endeavored to avoid the error of the Patripassians, but he tried to get out of it by saying that there was no real incarnation.
