Among the extremist anthropomorphists (mujassimah) from the Jews there are some who are reported to have said:

“Allah wept over the Flood until His eyes became inflamed, so the angels came to visit Him; and He felt such remorse that He bit His own hand and blood flowed from it.”

This is flagrant, unmistakable disbelief. Yet they contend, “What we say is still better than what the Christians say, for the Christians claim:

‘He was seized, scourged with whips, spat upon, a crown of thorns was set on His head like a diadem, He was crucified between two thieves, and He was subjected to the most degrading treatment meted out to bandits and highway robbers.’

Many of them state explicitly that all of this befell both the divinity (lahūt) and the humanity (nāsūt) alike. Their own creed points to the same conclusion, and the charge inevitably applies even to those among them who deny it; for once they profess the union (ittiḥād) that all three of their sects must affirm, it becomes impossible for such punishments to befall the humanity alone without likewise afflicting the divinity. That distinction could only be imagined if there were, in fact, two separate entities—but whoever holds to union cannot admit the presence of two.

In short, Trinitarian Christians must either declare an absolute union in every respect, like the Jacobites, who openly maintain that the sufferings attached themselves to the divinity, or acknowledge a union from one aspect only, as the Melkites do when they say that the two are one person