that divinity and humanity have united like water and milk, and that the very one nailed to the cross is the Creator of the world—while others affirm inherence, like water contained in a vessel, as do the Nestorians, who say that they are two substances, two natures, and two hypostases; and still others affirm inherence in one respect and union in another, as do the Melkites, who liken it to fire in iron—so these Jahmīs who profess unrestricted inherence and union in all created beings hold a doctrine worse than the Christian doctrine of union. Their doctrine is of the same kind as that of the polytheists and the negators, whose condition is worse than that of the Christians. This is so in two respects: