When Christianity displayed a tendency to unite itself with paganism, the conversion of the Jews was arrested; it totally ceased when Trinitarian ideas were introduced.

The cities of Syria and Egypt were full of Jews.
In Alexandria alone, at the time of its capture by Amrou, there were forty thousand who paid tribute.

Centuries of misfortune and persecution had served only to confirm them in their monotheism, and to strengthen that implacable hatred of idolatry which they had cherished ever since the Babylonian captivity.

Associated with the Nestorians, they translated into Syriac many Greek and Latin philosophical works, which were retranslated into Arabic.

While the Nestorian was occupied with the education of the children of the great Mohammedan families, the Jew found his way into them in the character of a physician.
FATALISM OF THE ARABIANS.