The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 109: what you’re looking at

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86 THE EMPEROR FULIAN’S ARGUMENTS opened ; nor the darkness which oppresses them to be purged away. Hence, like men who survey a great light through thick darkness, neither purely nor genuinely, and in consequence of this do not conceive it to be a pure light, but a fire, and likewise perceiving nothing of all that sur- rounds it, but loudly exclaim, Be seized with horror, be afraid,-fire, flame, death, a knife, a two-edged sword, expressing by many names the one noxious power of fire. Of these men, how- ever, it is better peculiarly to observe how much inferior their teachers of the words of God are to our poets. EPISTLE XLII. AN EDICT, FORBIDDING THE CHRISTIANS TO TEACH THE LITERATURE OF THE HEATHENS. WE are of opinion that proper erudition con- Sists not im words, nor in elegant and magnificent language, but in. the sane disposition of an intel- COMME OOKS (CO 7