and that the Nestorians hold he is the Son of Allah, and that the Mariyusiyyah claim he is the third of three; at other times they ascribe to the Nestorians the view that he is the third of three and to the Melkites that he is Allah, explaining the phrase “third of three” as referring to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

The correct view is that every one of these assertions is espoused by the well-known Christian sects—the Melkites, the Jacobites, and the Nestorians—for all of them affirm the three hypostases: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Hence they say that Allah is the third of three, that the Messiah is Allah, and that he is the Son of Allah. They are unanimous in holding that the divine and human natures became united and that the one who enters into union is “the Word.” They are likewise agreed upon the creed that contains all of this, namely their declaration:

“We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Creator of the heavens and the earth, of all that is seen and unseen; and in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, born of the Father….”