which indeed was said in the Gospel, but by one who had not yet known Christ, though he had already been enlightened in body by Him. Nor does that please me, that I gave so much praise to the philosopher Pythagoras that one who hears or reads this might suppose me to have believed that there were no errors in the Pythagorean doctrine, whereas there are several, and those capital ones. This work begins thus: 'Concerning the order of things, O Zenobius.'