complexity also means that, once again, any historical interpretation is provisional, not in the sense of, say, being necessarily susceptible to being shown to be false but in the sense of being a limited explanation. Who knows when a document might appear that sheds further light on Athanasius’s Life of Anthony? It will not demonstrate that the treatise is not, in part, an anti-Arian tract because it clearly is; but it might well deepen and expand further our interpretation.