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On the Theophania

Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Lee, 1843

But, increasing in manifold impiety and the excess of wickedness, they made themselves …

But, increasing in manifold impiety and the excess of wickedness, they made themselves Gods of their own passions; which it was becoming they should have put away, and have cured by the effort of pure reason:—of their lust, their baser infirmities and passions; of their grosser members also fitted for corrupt acts, and of the different parts of the body. And again, the appetency to the intemperate lusts, they named Cupid, Priapus, Venus, and other things allied to these: nor did they confine themselves to these,—

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