Section: Refutation of Their Argument Drawn from the Torah—namely, God’s Words to Moses—and of What They Claim These Words Imply About a Plurality in His Divinity, exalted is He.
They say: “We mention, as a fifth proof, that in the second book of the Torah God spoke to Moses from the bush, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ He did not say, ‘I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,’ but instead repeated the word ‘God’ three times—‘I am God, and God, and God’—to confirm the matter of the three hypostases in His Godhead.”
The reply: Using this text as evidence for the three hypostases is among the most flawed of arguments, and this appears from several angles.
First: If by the first occurrence of the word “God” one intends the hypostasis of existence, by the second the hypostasis of the Word, and by the third the hypostasis of life, it would follow that the first hypostasis is the God of Abraham, the second the God of Isaac, and the third the God of Jacob; thus