... already a share in its conception—required that the missionary to the Greeks should become a Greek and that believers should come to know, "all things are yours, and ye are Christ's." Paul, as no doubt other missionaries besides him, connected the preaching of Christ with the Greek mode of thought; he even employed philosophic doctrines of the Greeks as presuppositions in his apologetic,[90] and therewith prepared the way for the introduction of the Gospel to the Graeco-Roman world of thought. But, in my opinion, he has nowhere allowed that world ... — History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack
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