R. Tarfon said: I swear by the lives of my children40 that if these scrolls were to come into my hands, I would burn them and their divine names. Even if a murderer41 were pursuing me, I would enter a house of idolatry rather than enter42 a house of theirs, for the worshippers of idolatry do not recognize him [God] and deny him, but these [minim] recognize God but deny him. . . .
