The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 25: what you’re looking at

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2 THE EMPEROR $ULIAN’S ARGUMENTS charges have been defended. For thus the proper subject of dispute will be in a better manner and more clearly determined, when he wishes to cor- rect any thing that is advanced by us, and does not recriminate in answering what we consider to be reprehensible. It is, however, worth while briefly to relate whence and how the conception of divinity first came to us. Afterwards, to compare what is said by the Greeks and the Hebrews of the divinity. And in the next place, to interrogate those who are neither Greeks nor Jews, but of the sect of the Galilzeans, why they have preferred their own doctrine to ours; and still farther, why not adhering to the tenets of the Jews, but departing from them, they have taken a peculiar road, assenting to nothing beautiful, nothing worthy, neither among us the Greeks, nor among the Hebrews derived from Moses, but collecting from both nations what is pernicious; impiety, indeed, from the Judaic craft; but a depraved and dissolute life from our indolence and confu- sion, they thmk proper to denominate this the most excellent worship of divinity. Y Scomresooks,.c® A)