Section: Their renewed insistence on the Trinity in light of what they had already quoted and alluded to from the prophets’ statements

They said:
“Because of this clear declaration that God made in the Torah and in the books of the prophets, we establish three hypostases: a single essence, one God, one Creator. This is what we profess: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.”

The reply may be set out from several angles.
First: In the Torah and the divinely revealed scriptures there is explicit affirmation of God’s oneness, explicit denial of any plurality of deities, and explicit negation of divinity for anything besides Him—statements that clearly invalidate the Christians’ claim and the like. Nowhere in these scriptures is there any mention of hypostases, either verbally or conceptually.
For they treat “hypostasis” as the name of the essence together with an attribute, yet the essence is one and plurality pertains only to the attributes, not to the essence itself.

Moreover, no single attribute can unite apart from the others, nor apart from the essence. Therefore it is impossible for one hypostasis to unite with, or indwell in, any creature without the other hypostasis. Likewise, neither the affirmation of three hypostases nor the restriction to only three attributes is found in any of the divine scriptures, nor in the discourse of the apostles. Nowhere is a true God derived from another true God, nor are any of God’s attributes—such as His speech or His life—ever called a son, or a god, or a lord, nor is there any affirmation