2599. There was also another who belonged among the gentiles and who had led a good and charitable life. When he heard Christian spirits reasoning about the things people ought to believe (for spirits reason among themselves far more fully and incisively than men, especially about goods and truths since these belong to the next life) he was astonished that they were disputing in this way. He said he did not wish to hear those things, for they were reasoning from illusions. He told them the following: If I am good I am able to know from good itself the things that are true; and those I do not know I am able to receive.