Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Commodianus/The Instructions of Commodianus/Chapter 34

XXXIII.&#8212;To the Gentiles.

O people, ferocious, without a shepherd, now at length wander not.&#160; For I also who admonish you was the same, ignorant, wandering.&#160; Now, therefore, take the likeness of your Lord.&#160; Raise upward your wild and roughened hearts.&#160; Enter stedfastly into the fold of your sylvan Shepherd, remaining safe from robbers under the royal roof.&#160; In the wood are wolves; therefore take refuge in the cave.&#160; Thou warrest, thou art mad; nor dost thou behold where thou abidest.&#160; Believe in the one God, that when dead thou mayest live, and mayest rise in His kingdom, when there shall be the resurrection to the just.