Note 1214 — Chapter XIII · MANES AND THE MANICHAEANS (continued 2)

That this was the professed policy of the sect seems plain from the words they attributed to Manes himself: “I am not inhuman like Christ who said: Whoso denieth me, him will I deny. I say unto you: Whoso denieth me before man and saves himself by this falsehood, him will I receive with joy, as if he had not denied me.” Cf. de Stoop, op. cit. p. 46, quoting Cedrenus; Al Bîrûnî, Chronology, p. 191.