Origen, on Ezek 16:30

“Wherein shall I cleanse thy heart, saith the Lord God: seeing thou dost all these the works of a shameless prostitute?”

“There is no doubt that the word of the orator provokes the hero to worse things when a heretic builds up his hero in the perversions of heresy by what he says.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.