Questions on the old and new testaments

Nothing is more fatal, indeed, than to love the obscenities and depravities of vice. What shall I say of the shameful scenes which take place in the caves where they hide their eyes? To escape from the shame of the obscenities with which the blistering is printed on them, they are blindfolded; some flap their wings like birds, imitating the voice of the raven, others sound the roar of lions; others, hands tied with the intestines of young horses, are thrown on pits full of water; one of them approaches with a sword, cuts the knots formed by these intestines, and proclaims himself their liberator. Other actions are more obscene yet. See how degrading depravities are the victim of these men who decree the name of wise men. Because these shameful scenes are accomplished in the shadows, they imagine that they cannot be known.

Ambrosiaster (Ps Augustine), Quaest. vet. nov. test. 114.11

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