The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 26: what you’re looking at

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AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. 3 The Greeks, therefore, have devised incredible — and prodigious fables of the gods. For they say that Saturn devoured his children, and again sent them into the light. They have also feigned illegal marriages, For Jupiter having connexion | with his mother, and having begotten children from her, married his own daughter, and in short, after having connexion with her, delivered her up to another. Afterwards follow the lacerations of Bacchus, and the conglutination of his members. And such are the fables of the Greeks, Here, however, if you are willing, we will com- pare the words of Plato with those of Moses. Consider therefore what Plato says of the Demi- urgus, and what words he ascribes to him in the fabrication of the world, that we may compare the cosmogony of Plato and Moses with each other; for thus it will appear which is the more excellent, and which is more worthy of divinity ; whether Plato who worshipped images, or he of whom the Scripture says, that God spoke to him face to face. ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was with- out form and void; and darkness was upon the B 2 °Y Neomntte HOO) SS (CO mn