Tradition
St. Ambrose
Letters
Book 18 › Section 19
19. And, certainly, many years ago the lights of the temples were taken away throughout the world; has it only now at length come into the mind of the gods of the heathen to avenge the injury? And did the Nile fail to overflow in its accustomed course, in order to avenge the losses of the priests of the city, while it did not avenge its own?
Source: Letters (New Advent)