The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 28: what you’re looking at

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

AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. 5 God, nor the darkness, nor the water; though it was certainly requisite that he who said of the light that it was produced by the command of God, ought also to have said this of the night, of the abyss, and of the water. Moses, however, says nothing alout the fabrication of them, though they are frequently mentioned by him. Besides this, neither does he make mention of the genera- tion or creation of angels, nor of the manner in which. they were produced, but alone speaks of the bodies which are contained in the heaven and the earth. So that God, according to Moses, is the fabricator of nothing incorporeal, but is the adorner of the subject matter of the universe. And when he says that the earth was without form and void, these are nothing more than the words of one who makes matter to be a moist and dry essence, and who introduces God as the adorner of it. Let us, however, compare one with the other, and consider what, and after what manner Di- vinity fabricates according to Moses, and after what manner he fabricates according to Plato. “And God said, let us make man in our image, after our. COLMIULE HOO) SS (CO mn