As I saw them disturbed at my saying that we are even children of God, I anticipated their enquiry and said: Listen, Gentlemen, how the Holy Spirit says concerning this people, that they are all sons of the Highest, and that when they are gathered together this Christ Himself will be present, to enforce judgement on every race of men.
Now the following are the words of David, as you yourselves interpret them: God stood in the assembly of gods, but in the midst does He judge gods. How long do ye judge (with) iniquity, and accept the persons of sinners? Judge for orphan and poor, and acquit the humble and the beggar. Deliver the beggar, and rescue the poor out of the hand of the sinner. They have not known, nor have they understood; they walk in darkness; all the foundations of the earth shall be shaken. I said: Ye are gods and all children of the Most High. But you die as a man, and fall as one of the princes. Arise, O God; judge the earth; because Thou shalt receive the inheritance among all the Gentiles.
Now in the translation of the Seventy it is said: Behold, of a truth ye die as men, and fall as one of the princes, that He may declare also the disobedience of men, I mean Adam and Eve, and the fall of one of the princes, namely him who was called the Serpent, for he fell with a great fall because he deceived Eve.
I have not however cited this passage with this object, but in order to prove to you that the Holy Spirit rebukes men, who were made, like God, free from suffering and immortal, if they kept His precepts, and were deemed worthy of being called by Him His sons. But they became like Adam and Eve and prepared death for themselves, let the interpretation of the Psalm be as you will. And thus it has been proved that they were deemed worthy to become gods, and deemed worthy to be all capable of becoming sons of the Highest, yet are to be judged and condemned each by himself, as also were Adam and Eve. Now that He also calls Christ God, has been proved repeatedly.