Sophron and Neophilus, or The School of Wisdom

and questioning reader—whether he be an Athanasian believer in the Trinity, Arian denier of the full divinity of Christ, or Socinian denier of the Trinity and divinity of Christ—when he finds the concept of a triune God derived from the three Egyptian deities Osiris, Isis, and Horus? Or when one tries to persuade him that the entire idea of a Messiah the Anointed One among the Jewish people has no other origin than the astrological representations of this Horus, or of the Egyptian god of fertility? Indeed, that—but when would I finish if I attempted to enumerate all the arbitrary, self-invented propositions with which this whole work is interwoven, all the highly strained interpretations of individual prophecies of the Old and New Testaments, or perhaps even of the visions in the Revelation of John? His Horus is his main idea from beginning to end: he finds this in the entire Bible of the Old and New Covenant, in much the same way as our theologians of old found prophecies and precursors of the Messiah everywhere.