ABSTRACT
Colossians, 2, 8 3 To what is a scholar like? A flask containing aromatic ointment. When it is
unstopped the fragrance is diffused; when it is stopped up the fragrance is not diffused.
Mishnah, Abodah Zarah, 35 4 To teach them the Book and the Wisdom, and to purify them by almsgiving;
verily Thou art the Sublime, the Wise. Koran, 2, 123
5 Every student of mathematics admires its precision and the clarity of its demonstrations. This leads him to believe in the philosophers, and to think that all their sciences resemble this one in clarity and demonstrative cogency. Further, he has already heard the accounts on everyone’s lips of their unbelief, their denial of God’s attributes, and their contempt for revealed truth.
