And pharmacy, with every kind of thing involved in it, is of the same contrivance. For if anyone is healed by matter, trusting in it, he will be healed all the more if he himself attends upon the power of God. For just as poisons are material compounds, in the same way the remedies too are of the same substance. But if we renounce the baser matter, people often endeavor to heal even through the interweaving of something else among the evils, and so they will misuse evils for the good. And just as the man who dines with a robber, even if he is not himself a robber, nevertheless on account of having feasted together with him partakes of punishment, in the same way the man who is not wicked, but who has mingled with the worthless and made use of it for what is reckoned good, will be punished by the judging God on account of his association in it. For why does the man who trusts in the economy of matter not wish to trust in God? And for what reason do you not approach the more powerful Master, but instead attend upon matter—as the dog is healed by an herb, the deer by a viper, the boar by river-crabs, the lion by apes? Why do you deify for me the things in the world? Why, by healing your neighbor, are you called a benefactor? Follow the power of the Logos. The demons do not heal, but by an art take men captive; and the most admirable Justin rightly declared the aforesaid to be like robbers. For just as it is the custom of those to take certain people captive and then to restore the same for a ransom to their relatives, so also the so-called gods, alighting upon the limbs of certain persons, and then through dreams contriving glory for themselves, and commanding such people to come forth publicly, in the sight of all, when they have had their fill of worldly things, fly away from the sufferers, circumscribing the disease they had contrived, and restore men to their former state.