The rewarded saints observed by the narrator of the epic have reached their non-Jewish paradise through intellectual reasoning. The righteous of the nations – a category mentioned but not explicated in the Talmud – are here given form in this description of paradise. For Immanuel of Rome, paradise can be reached through a universal path consisting of self-discovery and intellectual discovery. The various forms of traditional religion, each with its own particular ethnicity, theology, and approach to naming God, pale before the universal truth.
<blockquote>:These are the pious among the gentile state:who by their intellect and wisdom have become great…:whist they with their intelligence searched out who formed them, and who was the Creator,:And as they passed the Faiths of all other under examination…:But they chose of all beliefs views such as seemed to them right,:Upon which men versed in conscience had no cause to fight…:And when men boastfully would attach a name to God, our hearts trembled, it shook our frame to think that each and every people should give Him some definite name.</blockquote> :We, however say, Be His name whatsoever, we believe in the First Existence, the True One, whom we never from our life can ever sever. (Immanuel ben Solomon, Tophet and Eden, trans. Hermann Gollancz [London: University of London Press, 1921].)
