Let us next consider an heretical view of the Trinity attributed to Migetius (_circa_ 750). According to the rather obscure account, which has come down to us,[1] he seems to have regarded the Three Persons of the Trinity, at least in their relations with the world, as corporeal, the Father being personified in David, the Son in Jesus, and the Holy Ghost in Paul. It is difficult to believe that the doctrine, thus crudely stated by Elipandus, was really held by anyone. We may perhaps infer[2] that Migetius revived the error of Priscillian (itself a form of Sabellianism), and reducing the Three Persons of the Trinity to one, acknowledged certain [Greek: energeiai], or powers, emanating from Him, which were manifested in David, Jesus, Paul respectively. As the first and last of these three recipients of the Divine powers were confessedly men, it follows that Migetius was ready to strip Jesus of that Divinity, which is the cardinal doctrine of Christianity, and which more than any other doctrine distinguishes it from the creed of Mohammed. Accordingly he appears to have actually denied the divinity of the Word,[3] and in this he made an approach to Mohammedanism.[4] [1] Elipandus to Migetius, sec. 3. See Migne, vol. 96, p. 859. [2] With Enhueber. Dissert, apud Migne, ci., p. 338 ff., sec. 29. [3] Enhueber, sec. 32. [4] Neander, v. 216, n., says, Migetius held that the [Greek: Logos] became personal with the assumption of Christ's humanity; that the [Greek: Logos] was the power constituting the personality of Christ. Hence, says Neander, he was accused of asserting that Christ, the son of David according to the flesh, and not Christ, the Son of God, was the Second Person of the Trinity.