The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 108: what you’re looking at

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AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. 85 granted that it should yield and be subservient to nature; but afterwards have punished those. by whom it was destroyed; which clearly happened to be the case with all the sacrilegious of our time. Let no one, therefore, deceive us with words, nor disturb us with respect to providential inter- j ference. For as to the prophets of the Jews, who reproach us with things of this kind, what will they say of their own temple, which has been thrice destroyed, but has not been since, even to the present time, rebuilt? I do not, however, say this as reproaching them; for I have thought of rebuilding it, after so long a period, in honour of. the divinity who is invoked in it. But I have mentioned this, being willing to show, that it is not possible for any human thing to be incor- ruptible; and that the prophets who wrote things of this kind were delirious, and the associates of stupid old women. Nothing, however, hinders, I think, but that God may be great, and yet he may not have worthy interpreters [of his will]. But this is because they have not delivered their soul to be purified by the liberal disciplines ; nor their eyes, which are profoundly closed, to be VEO mn G HOO) SS (CO mn