And if this thought should occur to anyone, that if we confessed God as our helper, we would not, as we say, be overpowered and afflicted by the unjust, this too I will resolve. God, having made the whole world, and having subjected earthly things to men, and having arranged the heavenly elements for the growth of fruits and the changes of the seasons, and having appointed for these a divine law—which things also he is seen to have made for the sake of men—committed the care of men and of the things under heaven to angels whom he appointed over these. But the angels, transgressing this order, were overcome by intercourse with women and begot children, who are those called demons. And besides, they thereafter enslaved the human race to themselves: partly by magical writings, partly by the fears and punishments they brought, and partly by teaching the offering of sacrifices and incense and libations, of which they became in need after they had been enslaved by the passions of desires; and they sowed among men murders, wars, adulteries, debaucheries, and every vice. Whence also the poets and mythologists, not knowing that it was the angels and the demons begotten of them who did these things to males and females and cities and nations, which they recorded, ascribed them to God himself and to those they regarded as sons begotten of him by procreation, and to those called his brothers, and likewise their children, and the children of those, namely Poseidon and Pluto. For they called each by the name which each of the angels had given to himself and to his children.