Origen

“ But since it is reasonable in other matters to prefer the law of nature, which is the law of God, before the written law, which has been enacted by men in a spirit of opposition to the law of God, why should we not do this still more in the case of those laws which relate to God? ”

“ For the holy Scriptures know Him to be the most ancient of all the works of creation; [1] for it was to Him that God said regarding the creation of man, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness.” ”

“ And if to the ancient inhabitants of Naucratis it seemed good to worship other divinities, while their modern descendants have begun quite recently to pay reverence to Serapis, who never was a god at all, we shall not on that account assert that a new being who was not formerly a god, nor at all known to men, is a deity. ”