Dialogue of Justin But if all nations are blessed in Christ, and we of all nations believe in Him, then He is indeed the Christ, and we are those blessed by Him. God formerly gave the sun as an object of worship,[466] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV And again, in that to the Romans: "And as they did not think fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things that are not convenient."[414] Address of Tatian to the Greeks But what the learned among the Greeks have said concerning our polity and the history of our laws, and how many and what kind of men have written of these things, will be shown in the treatise against those who have discoursed of divine things.[94] These things, O Greeks, I Tatian, a disciple of the barbarian philosophy,[95] Five Books in Reply to Marcion Reprobate in your very mind,[60] Origen Against Celsus Book VII but "as they choose to retain God in their knowledge,"[113] Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book V this custom is a piece of Judaic corruption, and on that account was forbidden; and if He exhorts the faithful that their yea be yea, and their nay, nay, and says that "what is more than these is of the evil one," how much more blameable are those who appeal to deities falsely so called as the objects of an oath, and who glorify imaginary beings instead of those that are real, whom God for their perverseness "delivered over to foolishness, to do those things that are not convenient!"[87]