Epistles of Ignatius

And how can He not be God, who raises the dead, heals the lame, cleanses lepers, restores sight to the blind, and either multiplies or transforms existing substances, like the five loaves and the two fishes, and the water that became wine, and who defeats your entire host with just a word? And why do you insult the nature of the Virgin and call her body disgraceful, when you used to display such things in public processions, ordering them to be shown naked, males in front of females, and females to provoke the uncontrolled desire of males? But now you consider these things disgraceful and pretend to be full of modesty, you spirit of fornication, not knowing that things become disgraceful only when polluted by wickedness. When sin is absent, none of the things that have been created are shameful or evil, but all are very good. Yet, because you are blind, you speak against these things.