"The teaching of these new (revolutionary French) liberties (is the work of the Devil.) ... The Almighty Lord puts into the heart of the Sultan of the Ottomans an inclination to keep free the religious beliefs of our Orthodox faith and, as a work of supererogation, to protect them, even to the point of occasionally chastising Christians who deviate from their faith, in order that they may have always before their eyes the fear of God."

Anthimos, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, in a Paternal Exhortation circulated in Istanbul in 1798 denouncing the revolutionary ideas coming out of France.