על עשרת הדברות ט״וOn the Decalogue 15
א׳
1[73] Surely to persons so demented we might well say boldly, “Good sirs, the best of prayers and the goal of happiness is to become like God.
ב׳
2[74] Pray you therefore that you may be made like your images and thus enjoy supreme happiness with eyes that see not, ears that hear not, nostrils which neither breathe nor smell, mouths that never taste nor speak, hands that neither give nor take nor do anything at all, feet that walk not, with no activity in any parts of your bodies, but kept under watch and ward in your temple-prison day and night, ever drinking in the smoke of the victims.
ג׳
3[75] For this is the one good which you imagine your idols to enjoy.” As a matter of fact I expect that such advice would be received with indignation as savouring of imprecations rather than of prayers and would call forth abusive repudiations and retorts, and this would be the strongest proof of the wide extent of impiety shown by men who acknowledge gods of such a nature that they would abominate the idea of resembling them.