Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV figures which ye made to worship them; "[177] Tertullian An Answer to the Jews And when the gold out of the necklaces of the women and the rings of the men had been wholly smelted by fire, and there had come forth a calf-like head, to this figment Israel with one consent (abandoning God) gave honour, saying, "These are the gods who brought us from the land of Egypt."[11] Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV This was, indeed, the Creator's customary region. It was proper that the Word[226]