ignorant—and positively misguided in theology and metaphysics—so what standing can their forerunners have, or the Jews and Christians who revere them?

Those Greeks came to acknowledge God, affirm His oneness, worship Him, and believe in His angels, His scriptures, and His messengers when the followers of Jesus approached them, calling them to the religion of God with which Christ had been sent. Anyone among Christ’s followers who did not alter any part of that religion before it was superseded is numbered among the believing, rightly guided; such people are God’s allies and are destined for Paradise.

Whoever imagines that the speech of the prophets accords with the doctrines of those Greeks only reveals his ignorance both of what the prophets brought and of what the Greeks themselves said. Such notions are found only in the utterances of the irreligious within the various faith communities—heretics from among the Jews, the Christians, and others—like the authors of the Epistles of the Brethren of Purity and their counterparts among the heretics who affiliate themselves with