The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 20: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

PREFACE. XML The Messiah, Jesus Christ, not only claimed to be Gop-sent, but to be Gop. Here then there are three alternatives. Either Jesus Christ was Gop—No. 1. Or He was an Impostor—No. 2. Or He was deceived—No. 3. Let men examine the Old Testament, as a his- torical narrative (apart from Inspiration) ; let them study the life of Jesus Christ and the opinions of those who knew Him best; let them see how wild Indians, Orientals, Mahometans, and, in a word, all Religions, have made for themselves a lnk between the Infinite and Finite, either in the shape of an Idol, or a Grand Lama, or the Sun; and, in thus doing, they bear. universal unanimous witness to the desire and opinion of the world that there must be a Revelation from Gop to Man, that there must be some link between Gop and Man, that there is not simply a supreme Being in Heaven and Man on Earth. Is this testimony, this universal feeling which has existed from the creation of Man, to be swept away as of no value by the shallow philosophers of the nineteenth century? Has the universal craving for a Gop COMME HOO) SS (CO mn