For [Gregory of Nyssa], the supreme example of how the believer could properly benefit from pagan learning was Moses, who had, according to the Book of Acts [7:22], “‘received a paideia in all the sophia of the Egyptians,’ a powerful speaker and a man of action.” Therefore “the paideia of the outsiders” was not to be shunned, but cultivated. What it imparted, moreover, as the text of Acts conceded, was not nonsense, despite its pagan origins, but an authentic sophia of some kind. (Jaroslav Pelikan, Christianity and Classical Culture, p. 10)