“‘Like twisting sacred literature into unsuitable and profane jokes is blasphemous, also those who out of their own heads add details that are ridiculous and unworthy of the saints while they paint subjects from the canonical scriptures are worthy of severe punishment.’ Indeed, it is no surprise that obscene pictures have such a great effect when the artifice of a picture without obvious obscenity has even provoked some to lust? As we can find in Ezekiel, when Aholibah saw Chaldean men depicted on the wall as princes, with girdles tied around their waists and dyed turbans on their heads, her eyes made her rave over them out of lust and she sent messengers to them in Chaldaea. Similar stories one can read in Book 8 of Valerius Maximus.”

“Et quemadmodum blasphemiae genus est sacras literas ad ineptos et prophanos iocos detorquere: ita gravi poena digni sunt, qui cum pingunt canonicarum Scripturarum argumenta, de suo capite miscent ridicula quaedam et sanctis indigna. Quid vero mirum, si obscoenae picturae tantum moveant, cum nonnullos etiam ad libidinem provocaverit picturae artificium absque manifesta obscoenitate? Unde apud Ezechielem Aholiba, cum vidisset viros Chaldaeos depictos in pariete accintos baltheis renes et tyaras tinctas in capitibus eorum formam ducum omnium insanivit super eos concupiscentia oculorum suorum et misit nuncios ad eos in Chaldaeam. Similiaque legas apud Valerium Maximum, factorum ac dictorum memorabilium lib. 8.”