is not the Creator; or whoever says that he is not seated at the right hand of his Father; or whoever likewise says that the Holy Spirit is not a true, life-giving Lord; or whoever says that he is not three persons.
You further curse—despite your claim that he is the Creator—the one who says, “He is the Father, and the Father is the Creator.” Thus you anathematize the one who says, “He is the Father, the Creator,” and you anathematize the one who says, “He is not the Creator,” bringing the two opposites together.
You curse the person who professes tawḥīd (pure monotheism) without any shirk (associating partners) or trinity, and you curse the one who affirms the trinity while maintaining that each of the three is separate from the other—again combining two mutually exclusive positions. Whoever upholds one of the two while rejecting the other, you curse him, like someone who says, “In my view, one is three.”
If someone says, “He is one and not three,” he pronounces him a liar; and if someone says, “He is three and not one,” he also pronounces him a liar.
Likewise, if a person says, “I possess a thing that is both existent and nonexistent,” then whoever says, “It exists and is not nonexistent,” you call him a liar; and whoever says, “It is nonexistent and not existent,” you also call him a liar.
And if someone says, “I have something that is living and dead, knowledgeable and ignorant, powerful and powerless,” then whoever says, “It is living and not dead,” you label him a liar; and whoever says, “It is dead and not living,” you likewise label him a liar.
Thus, you unite two contradictory claims, one of them true and the other false. Consequently, whoever states the truth and rejects the falsehood, you curse him; and whoever champions the falsehood and rejects