ABSTRACT
This chapter provides thanksgiving hymn seems to be written by or for a Christian coming from Asia Minor, where he had spread the good news. It could be supposed that he was converted by St. Luke, who also thought that Christianity would bring peace to some, division to others. This hymn, of a current type and made up stereotyped phrases, could have been written any time after AD 70. The terms of warfare are merely figures of speech. The author thanks God for having saved him from the zeal of those the Zealots who propagate lies, and from the society of the others the Zadokites whom he reproaches for being seekers after honours, and who were wanting to sacrifice the lives of the people in an effort to establish a worship of no value. The author imagines that the Chimaera lives at the bottom of the deeps, which he identifies with the abode of the dead.
