What person who ever lived formed a body for himself from a virgin alone? Or what person ever healed such diseases as the common Lord of all? Who supplied what was lacking from birth and made a man born blind see?
Asclepius was deified among them because he practiced medicine and discovered herbs for suffering bodies. He did not himself form these herbs from the earth, but discovered them through knowledge drawn from nature. But what is this compared with what the Savior did? He did not merely heal a wound; He fashioned what had been lacking from birth and restored the creature.
Hercules is worshiped as a god by the Greeks because he fought against other human beings like himself and killed wild beasts by cunning. What is that compared with what the Word did, driving diseases, demons, and death itself away from people? Dionysus is worshiped among them because he taught people drunkenness; yet they mock the true Savior and Lord of all, who taught self-control.
That, however, is enough on this point. What will they say to the other marvels of His divinity? At what man's death was the sun darkened and the earth shaken? Why, even to this day men are dying, and they did so also before that time. When did any such marvels happen in their case?
Or, to pass over the works done through His body and mention those after His body's resurrection: what person's teaching has ever prevailed everywhere as one and the same, from one end of the earth to the other, so that his worship has winged its way through every land?
Or if, as they say, Christ is a man and not God the Word, why do their gods not prevent His worship from spreading into the very lands where they are? Why, instead, does the Word Himself, coming among us, put an end to their worship by His teaching and put their deception to shame?