Nor do we honor with many sacrifices and garlands of flowers those whom men have shaped and set up in temples and named gods, since we know them to be lifeless and dead things that have not the form of God (for we do not suppose God to have such a form as some say is imitated in his honor), but rather to have the names and shapes of those wicked demons who appeared. For why need we tell you, who know it, what the craftsmen do with the material—scraping and cutting and casting and hammering? And often, out of vessels of no worth, by their art they merely change the shape and fashion an image, and call them gods. This we hold to be not only irrational but also done in insult to God, who, having ineffable glory and form, is named over corruptible things that need care. And that the craftsmen of these are licentious and possess every kind of vice—not to enumerate them—you know exactly; they even corrupt their own slave-girls who work with them. O the madness, that licentious men should be said to fashion and to remake gods for worship, and to appoint such men as guardians of the temples where they are set up, not perceiving that it is unlawful even to think or say that men are guardians of gods!