the inherence and union specific to Christ. This is because he treats an entity’s being fixed as distinct from its existence, as do those who say that the nonexistent is a thing. This is false, although the more discerning among these thinkers do not accept an inherence that entails two entities: one inhering and the other its substrate. Rather, they hold that there is only one existence.

Some of them say that He is absolute existence, even though the absolute has no existence in external reality except as something particular and specified. He would therefore be the very existence of created beings. Others state this explicitly, saying that He is identical with existing things, making no distinction between being fixed and existing, or between the absolute and the particular. These people thus identify Him with created beings themselves.

Unrestricted inherence and union therefore resemble inherence and union in a particular being. And just as some Christians hold that, in Christ, divinity and humanity are one substance and one attribute—as do the Jacobites, who say