“If used to designate eternal distinctions in God, it leads to tritheism, which is a form of polytheism.”

“Either modalism or tritheism is the natural egress for such a sustained understanding.”

“But, unhappily, in his zeal against Socinians and Sabellians, he used expressions which might be construed into tritheism.”

“Though confessing Father, Son and Spirit, the tritheist does not confess the true and living God, for three distinct Gods is a totally foreign idea to Scripture.”

“It was probably Philoponus's effort to lay hold of this new dimension in the midst of the debates that gained for him as both a monophysite and a tritheist his condemnation.”