 In the 17th century the phrase was used in the neo-Latin form "Quem Iuppiter vult perdere, dementat prius" (Whom Jupiter would ruin, he first makes mad); in a Christianized Greek version, "Iuppiter" was replaced by "God" as in "μωραίνει Κύριος ον βούλεται απολέσαι".Another version ("Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad") is quoted as a "heathen proverb" in "Daniel, a Model for Young Men" (1854) by William Anderson Scott (1813–85).Brigham Young quoted the phrase in a discourse delivered on March 16, 1856, attributing it as an "ancient proverb".