Fourteenth (1): (2) Although limiting the divine attributes to eight is a view maintained (3) by some who affirm the attributes [among the Asharīs and others, the correct position according to the majority of those who affirm the attributes] (4) and the leading Asharīs is that the attributes are not confined to eight. Indeed, human beings cannot confine them to any number. Accordingly, the claim attributed to them that He is the ninth of nine is false—even if this were something that could properly be said.

Fifteenth (5): The Christians affirmed hypostases and said that they are three (6) substances brought together by a single substance, that each one is a god (7) who creates and provides, and that the one united with Christ is the hypostasis of the Word and knowledge, namely the Son. This doctrine is inherently contradictory: if that which is united with Christ is an attribute, an attribute neither creates nor provides, nor does it separate from the one characterized by it. If, however, it is the one characterized by that attribute, then it is the single substance, namely the Father (8). Christ would therefore be the Father, but this is not what they maintain,