Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Commodianus/The Instructions of Commodianus/Chapter 5

IV.&#8212;Saturn.

And Saturn the old, if he is a god, how does he grow old?&#160; Or if he was a god, why was he driven by his terrors to devour his children?&#160; But because he was not a god, he consumed the bowels of his sons in a monstrous madness.&#160; He was a king upon earth, born in the mount Olympus; and he was not divine, but called himself a god.&#160; He fell into weakness of mind, and swallowed a stone for his son.&#160; Thus he became a god; of late he is called Jupiter.