On Prayer 29.10

As for all those who, having devoted themselves to the study of the divine Scriptures, misunderstood what is proclaimed in the law and the prophets and devoted themselves to godless and impious doctrines, or to silly and ridiculous ones, why need I even speak of them, when countless people who seem not liable to the charge of neglecting the readings stumble in such ways? Many have suffered the same with the readings from the apostles and the gospels, fashioning through their own folly a Son or a Father other than the one spoken of in theology and understood in truth by the saints. For the one who does not think truly about God or his Christ has fallen away from the true God and his Only-begotten; and the one whom his folly has fashioned, thinking him to be Father and Son, he does not really worship. He suffered this because he did not recognize the temptation that lies in reading the holy writings, nor arm himself and stand firm as against a contest present to him even then.