The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 102: what you’re looking at

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AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. 79° companion of Augustus Cesar, and a philosopher, was your fellow-citizen. The particular favours conferred on your city by the Olympic gods were, in short, such as these. Many more, not to be prolix, I omit. But those blessings which the apparent gods bestow in com- mon every day, not on one family, nor on a single city, but on the whole world, why do you not acknowledge? Are you alone insensible of the splendour that flows from the sun? Are you alone ignorant that summer and winter are produced by him, and that all things are alone vivified, and alone germinate from him? Do you not, also, perceive the great advantages that accrue to your city from the moon, from him and by him the fabricator of all things? Yet you dare not wor- ship either of these deities ; but this Jesus, whom neither you nor your fathers have seen, you think | must necessarily be God the word, while him, whom from eternity every generation of mankind has seen, and sees and venerates, and by venerat- ing lives happily, I mean the mighty sun, a living, animated, intellectual, and beneficent image of the intelligible father, you despise. If, however, you oe ee eee ee ~_s = -_ —_ 2 oe HOO) SS (CO mn Scone