The book A History of Christianity states: “Christian metaphysicians were to portray the Greeks in the decades before Christ as struggling manfully but blindly towards a knowledge of God, trying, as it were, to conjure up Jesus out of the thin Athenian air, to invent Christianity out of their poor pagan heads. ”
और फायलो खुद एक यहूदी तत्वज्ञानी था, इसलिए उसके विचारों का यहूदियों पर ज़बरदस्त असर पड़ा ।