The present study attempts to determine the confessional background of the ninth-century Arab Christian translator of Plotinus, ʿAbd al-Masīḥ ibn Nāʿima al-Ḥimṣī. Three scenarios are examined: that he was a Maronite, a Melkite, or a Jacobite. Given that we have, unfortunately, no primary sources that contextualize al-Ḥimṣī within his Christian environment, any answer to this question must remain tentative.