Sigalion in the Shield of Croesiades or Apologetic Dialogue for the Mystery of Detected Syncretism

legalities; let Paul Turbo have his own affairs. It is to be rejoiced that the Jewish and Christian religions feel the same in a common symbol. Non-fundamental and modified questions, such as whether the Messiah is a secular or spiritual King; or whether legal observance is necessary synyparktikos co-existently or synergikos cooperatively, are not so significant that for their sake the common peace should experience a delay or a brake. In the meantime, let those who err here be tolerated, until the matter is reduced to clarity in the synagogues and schools.

§. 10.

O blind minds of men! O lurid night, darker even than the hellish gloom itself, the less it is felt! The eyes and the Light are missing, and yet the most sharp-sighted persuasion of empty vision is not missing. A solid peace is sought without light; external peace without internal; how remote from Crete is to gnothi seauton know thyself, and how much more remote is to gnothi theon know God? Let no one promise themselves a solid peace without the propitious true Deity: let no one make a single religion that is not true: let no one give words for things, and cover the thefts of irreconcilable opinions with the shroud of one name. GOD is an eye, the eye of God is a punisher. No one who compares the true GOD and para beside him the Noachide Refers to the Noahide laws often cited in syncretic arguments of the period to pimp-gods, who do not bear adulteries with difficulty, but rather sell them, is a ZEALOT, to be followed with one perpetual mixed love, faith, and worship. How little in vain was that one of yours, when he wrote:

Kret es aei pseustai, kaka theria gasteres argai. Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies.

A liar in disposition and in the pursuit of deceit; an evil beast in the rabies of internal quarrels; a lazy belly in the pursuit of ventriloquous, not true, peace. This nature must be tamed before the leopard should change its spots, not by its own, but by Heavenly powers, so that the wolf might lie down with the lamb, and the leopard with the kid. But what is it to me, who are outside?

I turn myself to you, O Cretans called by heaven to a more blessed hope, whom a better Philosophy has deemed worthy, whose salvation I love, seek, and defend as my own: to whom, from faith in Jesus Christ, peace has shone forth superior to all grasp of reason, peace at the throne