If dialogues should lead to new dialogues, to the opening up of new topics to explore and discuss, then it is my hope that this book will do the same. In particular, I have had little room in this book to look at the other surviving dialogues of Methodius, although On Free Will, On the Resurrection and On Leprosy have had a certain role to play in the story that I have told. My hope is that future scholars interested in the literature of the transitional period of the Crisis of the Third Century will take up the challenge of reading and analyzing these fascinating and woefully understudied texts. Even more fundamentally, I hope that this book has contributed to two larger scholarly projects. I hope that it has convinced scholars of Imperial literature that they ignore Christian evidence to their own loss, and I hope that I have convinced scholars of Late Antiquity that interesting things are happening in the field of literature.