(in another copy: “nor does He have light”), nor does He have a body. He is neither known nor comprehensible. Whatever comes to your mind as something you recognize, He is unlike it.’

We asked, ‘Is He a thing?’ They replied, ‘He is a thing unlike other things.’ We said, ‘People of reason know that a thing unlike all things is nothing at all.’ At that point, it became clear to people that they affirm nothing—or he said, ‘offer nothing’—but merely ward off censure through what they profess in public. When asked, ‘Whom do you worship?’ they say, ‘We worship the One who governs the affairs of this creation.’