Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Commodianus/The Instructions of Commodianus/Chapter 38

XXXVII.&#8212;The Fanatics Who Judaize.

What! art thou half a Jew? wilt thou be half profane?&#160; Whence thou shalt not when dead escape the judgment of Christ.&#160; Thou thyself blindly wanderest, and foolishly goest in among the blind.&#160; And thus the blind leadeth the blind into the ditch.&#160; Thou goest whither thou knowest not, and thence ignorantly withdrawest.&#160; Let them who are learning go to the learned, and let the learned depart.&#160; But thou goest to those from whom thou canst learn nothing.&#160; Thou goest forth before the doors, and thence also thou goest to the idols.&#160; Ask first of all what is commanded in the law.&#160; Let them tell thee if it be commanded to adore the gods; for they are ignored in respect of that which they are especially able to do.&#160; But because they are guilty of that very crime, they relate nothing concerning the commandments of God save what is marvellous.&#160; Then, however, they blindly lead you with them into the ditch.&#160; There are deaths too well known by them to relate, or because the heaping up of the plough closes up the field.&#160; The Almighty would not have them understand their King.&#160; Why such a wickedness?&#160; He Himself took refuge from those bloody men. He gave Himself to us by a superadded law.&#160; Thence now they lie concealed with us, deserted by their King.&#160; But if you think that in them there is hope, you are altogether in error if you worship God and heathen temples.