Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Pseudo-Clementine Literature/The Clementine Homilies/Homily V/Chapter 6

Chapter VI.&#8212;Scruples.

&#8220;Then said I:&#160; &#8216;Are those things correct, then, which are spoken by poets and philosophers, that in Hades the souls of the wicked are judged and punished for their attempts; such as those of Ixion, and Tantalus, and Tityus, and Sisyphus, and the daughters of Danaus, and as many others as have been impious here?&#160; And how, if these things are not so, is it possible that magic can subsist?&#8217;&#160; Then he having told me that these things are so in Hades, I asked him:&#160; &#8216;Why are not we ourselves afraid of magic, being persuaded of the punishment in Hades for adultery?&#160; For I do not admit that it is a righteous thing to compel to adultery a woman who is unwilling; but if any one will engage to persuade her, I am ready for that, besides confessing my thanks.&#8217;