13. And not only stocks and stones, but even
Satan himself, the destroyer of souls, have some ere now chosen for a
father; to whom the Lord said as a rebuke, Ye do the deeds of your
father John viii. 41., that is of the
devil, he being the father of men not by nature, but by
fraud. For like
as Paul by his godly teaching came to be called the father of the
Corinthians, so the devil is called the father of those who of their
own will consent unto him Ps. l. 18..