The Enarrations, or Expositions, on the Psalms

^23. And man exalts himself: and in order that he may belong to the first captivity, he hears the serpent suggesting, “Taste, and you shall be as Gods.” Men as Gods? “O God, who is like You?” Not any in the pit, not in Hell, not in earth, not in Heaven, for all things You have made. Why does the work strive with the Maker? “O God, who is like You?” But as for me, says miserable Adam, and Adam is every man, while I perversely will to be like You, behold what I have become, so that from captivity to You I cry out: I with whom it was well under a good king, have been made captive under my seducer; and cry out to You, because I have fallen from You. And whence have I fallen from You? While I perversely seek to be like You....