Zigabenus' exegetical works include commentaries on the Psalms, on the four Gospels, and on the Letters attributed to St. Paul of Tarsus.
In truth, it was quite messy though consensus did eventually emerge, especially around the four Gospels and most of the letters attributed to Paul.
While the gospels represent the former case, many of the letters attributed to the Apostle Paul as well as those attributed to Peter and others represent the latter.
His letters, and the letters attributed to Peter, James, John and Jude, were written before the Gospels and make almost no reference to the Gospel accounts and sayings of Jesus.
The letters attributed to Paul were meant to offer Christians practical instructions about negotiating day-to-day affairs, and they speak to specific churches at particular points in time. .
For Numenius criticizes in this work the departure of the skeptical Academics from what he considers to be Plato's doctrine, namely, the doctrine of first principles of reality that Numenius finds adumbrated in the 2nd Letter attributed to Plato (fr. 24.51 6).
The affair was made absurdly complicated by the activities of Esterhazy in inventing evidence and spreading rumours, and of Major Hubert Joseph Henry, discoverer of the original letter attributed to Dreyfus, in forging new documents and suppressing others.
So the news of a letter attributed to the Twelfth Imam and published in a religious weekly came as a shock.
