after that, recite what He has revealed (1) to you. It is for Us to gather that in your heart, for you to recite it with your tongue, and then for you to explain it (2) to the people after Gabriel has left you.
His statement:
“What those who speak by allusion are referring to is the elimination of temporal origination (3) and the affirmation of pre-eternity.”
In response, it is said: By this, they mean negating all that is temporally originated (4)—that is, that nothing is present except the Pre-eternal One. This may be understood in two ways. If it means entirely negating all that is temporally originated (5) and asserting that the servant is the Pre-eternal One, this is worse than what the Christians say, although it is close to what the Jacobite Christians say. The Jacobites maintain that divinity and humanity mingled and blended together, becoming one substance, one hypostasis, and one nature. Some of them say, “The two hands that were nailed (6) are the very hands by which Adam was created.”
The Nestorians, however, maintain that divinity indwells humanity. The Melkites (7) say that he is one person, possessing one hypostasis, with two natures and two wills (8). They liken him to iron and fire; the Nestorians liken him to water in vessels; and the Jacobites liken him to water mixed with milk, and water mixed with wine (9).