of the same essence as His Father; He is the One who fashioned the worlds and created everything by His hand, who descended for your salvation, became incarnate, was carried in Mary’s womb and born, was killed and crucified. Whoever denies the statement of the Jacobites must likewise repudiate this very Creed—which testifies to the truth of their claim—and pronounce a curse upon the one who composed it.

He said:

That faction—meaning those who drafted the Creed in these words and claimed to have found them in the Gospel—took hold of ambiguous passages, interpreting them as they pleased, and left aside the clear, obvious words of the Gospel that affirm the servitude of the Messiah: his own testimony about himself and the testimony of his disciples concerning him. They clung to the few obscurities, imposed upon them whatever interpretation they wished, and dismissed the abundant, explicit texts that require no interpretation.

He said:

As for your argument based on the sun—that it is a single entity with three aspects—and your likening of the three hypostases to it, that is merely a specious plea and invalid. The sun’s light cannot be bounded by the definition of the sun, nor can its heat be bounded by that definition. The sun itself is a luminous, heated, spherical body revolving perpetually at the centre of the celestial spheres; one could, in the same way, define its light and heat by these attributes, yet no one says that its light or its heat is itself a luminous, heated, spherical body in constant revolution. Were its light and its heat a real sun derived from a real sun, of the very substance of the sun—just as the Creed says of the Messiah, that he is true God from true God, of