9 The bride of Christ rejoices in the hope of full salvation, and desires for you a happy conversion from fables to truth. She desires that the fear of Adoneus, as if he were a strange lover, may not prevent your escape from the seductions of the wily serpent. Adonai is a Hebrew word, meaning Lord, as applied only to God. In the same way the Greek word latria means service, in the sense of the service of God; and Amen means true, in a special sacred sense. This is to be learned only from the Hebrew Scriptures, or from a translation.
The Church of Christ understands and loves these names, without regarding the evils of those who scoff because they are ignorant. What she does not yet understand, she believes may be explained, as similar things have already been explained to her. If she is charged with loving Emmanuel, she laughs at the ignorance of the accuser, and holds fast by the truth of this name. If she is charged with loving Messiah, she scorns her powerless adversary, and clings to her anointed Master.
Her prayer for you is, that you also may be cured of your errors, and be built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. The monstrosity with which you ignorantly charge the true doctrine, is really to be found in the world which, according to your fanciful stories, is made partly of your god and partly of the world of darkness. This world, half savage and half divine, is worse than monstrous. The view of such follies should make you humble and penitent, and should lead you to shun the serpent, who seduces you into such errors.
If you do not believe what Moses says of the guile of the serpent, you may be warned by Paul, who, when speaking of presenting the Church as a chaste virgin to Christ, says, "I fear lest, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his craftiness, your minds also should be corrupted from the simplicity and purity which is in Christ." In spite of this warning, you have been so misled, so infatuated by the serpent's fatal enchantments, that while he has persuaded other heretics to believe various falsehoods, he has persuaded you to believe that he is Christ.
Others, though fallen into the maze of manifold error, still admit the truth of the apostle's warning. But you are so far gone in corruption, and so lost to shame, that you hold as Christ the very being by whom the apostle declares that Eve was beguiled, and against whom he thus seeks to put the virgin bride of Christ on her guard. Your heart is darkened by the deceiver, who intoxicates you with dreams of glittering groves. What are these promises but dreams? What reason is there to believe them true? O drunken, but not with wine!
Source: Reply to Faustus the Manichaean (New Advent)