Hortatory Address to the Greeks

It is therefore necessary, Greeks, that you contemplate what is to come and consider the judgment predicted by all, not only by the godly but also by those who are irreligious. Do not, without investigation, commit yourselves to the error of your ancestors, nor assume that if they have been mistaken and passed it down to you, what they taught you is true. Instead, recognizing the danger of such a grave mistake, inquire and investigate carefully into those matters which, as you say, are even spoken of by your own teachers. For even unwillingly, they were compelled for your sake to say many things due to the Divine regard for humanity, especially those among them who were in Egypt and benefited from the godliness of Moses and his ancestry. I believe that some of you, even when reading carelessly the histories of Diodorus and others who wrote about these matters, cannot help but notice that Orpheus, Homer, Solon, who wrote the laws of the Athenians, Pythagoras, Plato, and some others, after being in Egypt and learning from the history of Moses, later published teachings about the gods that were quite contrary to those they had previously, mistakenly, promoted.