Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Commodianus/The Instructions of Commodianus/Chapter 22

XXI.&#8212;The Montesiani.

Ye call the mountains also gods.&#160; Let them rule in gold, darkened by evil, and aiding with an averted mind.&#160; For if a pure spirit and a serene mind remained to you, thou thyself ought to examine for thyself concerning them.&#160; Thou art become senseless as a man, if thou thinkest that these can save thee, whether they rule or whether they cease.&#160; If thou seekest anything healthy, seek rather the righteousness of the law, that brings the help of salvation, and says that you are becoming eternal.&#160; For what you shall follow in vanity rejoices you for a time.&#160; Thou art glad for a brief space, and afterwards bewailest in the depths.&#160; Withdraw thyself from these, if thou wilt rise again with Christ.