Cf.
Athanasius, Third Oration Against the Arians, §
35—“But should any man, noticing the divinity revealed in
the action of the Word, deny the reality of the body, or marking the
things peculiar to the body, deny the presence of the Word in flesh or
judging from His human experiences and behaviour, conceive a low esteem
of the Word, such a person, like the Jew vintner, mixing water with his
wine, will hold the Cross a scandal, and, like a heathen philosopher,
regard the preaching as folly—which is just the state of the
ungodly followers of Arius.” Horace, Sat. I. v. 3,
4—“inde Forum Appî, Differtum nautis, cauponibus
atque malignis.”