Origen,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IV, Origen…
(1885)
“ It is probable, however, that to such remarks as the above, the answer returned would be, that he was pious who kept the laws of his own country, and not at all chargeable with impiety for the non-observance of those of other lands; and that, again, he who was deemed guilty of impiety among certain nations was not really so, when he worshipped his own gods, agreeably to his country’s laws, although he made war against, and even feasted on, [1] those who were regarded as divinities among those nations which possessed laws of an opposite kind. ”
