Section: Clarifying the meaning of His words on the tongue of David, “Your Holy Spirit—do not take it away from me.”

They say: “It is stated on the tongue of the Prophet David—peace be upon him—‘Your Holy Spirit—do not take it away from me.’”

It is replied: This shows that the Holy Spirit was present in David. From this it follows that the Holy Spirit found in the Messiah is of the same order, and therefore the Holy Spirit is not restricted to the Messiah alone. They themselves acknowledge this, for in several passages of the scriptures they possess it is recorded that the Holy Spirit descended upon others besides the Messiah—upon David, upon the Disciples, and upon still others.

Hence, if the Holy Spirit were the very life of God and whoever received it thereby became divine, it would follow that every one of those persons would be a god, and that each would combine divinity and humanity just as the Messiah does. This, however, contradicts the unanimous position of Muslims, Christians, and Jews.

It would further follow that the Messiah would contain two divinities: the Word and the Holy Spirit, so that together with the human nature the Messiah would consist of two hypostases—the hypostasis of the Word and the hypostasis of the Holy Spirit. Moreover, this is not an attribute of God that subsists in Him, for any attribute that subsists in God—or, indeed, the attribute of any being—never separates from its subject to become established in another; and there is no