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Orthodox Creed of the Nestorians
In the Name of God the Most Merciful. The orthodox creed of the Nestorians, drawn up by the undeserving Abdeshua, Metropolitan of Nisibis and Armenia. Abdeshua Metropolitan of Nisibis and its dependencies, says:
That the most glorious and exalted Creator is pre-existent, the Self-existent, the One, the Truth, the Only One, Who is not susceptive of plurality in any way, Whose Essence is eternal, the Wise, the Living.
Christians apply to Him, Whose Essence is eternal, the name of Father, because He is the Cause and Source, and the Maker of all created beings, and pre-existent to them in Nature and Essence.
They apply to the Wise the name of SON, because wisdom is begotten of the Essence of the Wise, without time (i.e., eternally) or separation, or dimunition.
They apply to the Living the name of HOLY SPIRIT, because He is the Living, the Eternal, the very Spirit, the Holy.
And this is what they mean by the declaration, that GOD is Three Knoome (Persons), One Essence, One God. Unity is ascribed to Him because of the unity of His Essence, and Trinity because of His essential "proprieties."
And they believe of Meshikha that the eternal Word, Who is the Wisdom of the exalted Creator and called the Son, and Who is three Knoome (Persons), as we have stated, One of the dwelt in the human nature taken from the Virgin Mary, and united therewith. Hence the name of Meshikha has a double meaning with them, the Divinity and the Humanity; and hence they say that Meshikha is perfect God and perfect Man, One LORD."
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Ya'aqub Younan-Levine, Bibliotheca Aramaica. 2008.