The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 104: what you’re looking at

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AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. 81 animal, they also are abandoned to evil dzemons who urge them to this misanthropy ; and many of them have had recourse to chains and collars. Thus, on all sides, they are impelled by an evil dzmon, to whom they have voluntarily surren- dered themselves, by forsaking the eternal and Saviour gods. Statues and altars, and the preservation of the// unextinguished fire, and, in short, all such parti- culars, have been established by our fathers as symbols of the presence of the gods; not that we should believe that these symbols are gods, but that through these we should worship the gods. For since we are connected with body, it is also necessary that our worship of the gods should be performed in a corporeal manner ; but they are in- corporeal. And they, indeed, have exhibited to us as the first of statues, that which ranks as the second genus of gods from the first, and which circularly revolves round the whole of heaven. Since, however, a corporeal worship cannot even be paid to these, because they are naturally unin- digent, a third kind of statues was devised in the earth, by the worship of which we render the gods G PaGonn G HOO) SS (CO mn