1 And when I saw that they were disturbed because I had said that we are children of God, I headed off their questions and said, “Listen, sirs, to how the Holy Spirit speaks about this people, saying that they are all sons of the Most High, and that this very Christ will be present in their assembly, passing judgment on every race of people. 2 The words were spoken through David, and in your translation they read this way: ‘God stands in the assembly of gods; He judges among the gods. How long will you judge unjustly and show favor to the wicked? Judge for the orphan and the poor, and do justice to the lowly and needy. Rescue the needy, and save the poor from the hand of the wicked. They do not know, nor have they understood; they walk on in darkness; all the foundations of the earth shall be shaken. I said, You are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High.⁠a But you die like men, and fall like one of the princes. Arise, God, judge the earth, for You shall inherit all the nations.’ 3 But in the translation of the Seventy it says, ‘Look, you die like men, and fall like one of the princes,’ to show the disobedience of human beings, I mean Adam and Eve, and the fall of one of the princes, that is, the one called the serpent, who fell with a great fall because he led Eve astray. 4 But since my argument is not aimed at this point now, but at proving to you that the Holy Spirit rebukes human beings, who were made like God, free from suffering and death if they kept His commandments, and were counted worthy by Him to be called His sons, and yet, becoming like Adam and Eve, bring about death for themselves, let the interpretation of the Psalm be as you wish; even so it is proved that all people have been counted worthy of becoming ‘gods,’ and of having the power to become sons of the Most High, and that each will be judged and condemned on his own account, like Adam and Eve. And I have proved at length that Christ is called God.