Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily IV/Chapter 17

Chapter XVII.&#8212;&#8220;Their Makers are Like Unto Them.&#8221;

&#8220;You will hold it reasonable for ignorant men to be moderately indignant at these fancies.&#160; But what must we say to the learned, some of whom, professing themselves to be grammarians and sophists, affirm that these acts are worthy of gods?&#160; For, being themselves incontinent, they lay hold of this mythical pretext; and as imitators of the gods, they practise unseemly things with freedom.