Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Commodianus/The Instructions of Commodianus/Chapter 55

LIV.&#8212;Of Fugitives.

The souls of those that are lost deservedly of themselves separate themselves.&#160; Begotten of him, they again recur to those things which are his.&#160; The root of Cain, the accursed seed, breaks forth and takes refuge in the servile nation under a barbarian king; and there the eternal flame will torment on the day decreed.&#160; The fugitive will wander vaguely without discipline, loosed from law to go about through the defiles of the ways.&#160; These, therefore, are such whom no penalty has restrained.&#160; If they will not live, they ought to be seen by the idols.