 The example of Simplicius’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics is emblematic of the connection between learned exegesis and religion: the “usefulness” of physics, Simplicius explains, is to provoke the awakening in souls of the anagogical triad of Love, Truth, and Faith (to which is added a fourth term, Hope); and the successive reading of the Physics and the De Caelo leads the soul of the philosopher-exegete and those of his audience (or of his readers) to a “union” (henôsis), through Faith and the “vital sympathy” correlative with it, with the divine Heaven and with the demiurgic intellect that produces the World. (Hoffmann 2006: 599–600)