the dualists who assert that Light was unable to restrain Darkness from committing evil, and akin to the view of Democritus and the Hananians, who contend that the Necessary Existent lacked the power to keep the soul from mingling with prime matter, rather, the soul became attached to it without the Necessary Existent’s choosing it.

Tenth: Consider the deed perpetrated against him by the unbelieving Jews who crucified him—was it obedience to God or disobedience? If it was obedience, then those Jews deserved that God reward and honor them for their compliance, just as He rewards all who obey Him. Yet the Christians unanimously hold that those individuals were among the greatest of sinners, indeed among the worst of creation, and they deem it lawful to shed their blood and curse them in a manner they would not permit against anyone else; rather,