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6 -THE EMPEROR fULIAN’S ARGUMENTS likeness: and let him have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth on the earth. So God created man in his own image, i the image of God created he him; male and female created he them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and re- plenish the earth and subdue it: and have do- minion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” Hear now the speech which Plato [in the Timzeus] ascribes to the Demiurgus of the universe: “Gods of gods, of whom I am the Demiurgus and father, whatever is generated by me is indissoluble, such being my will in its fabrication. Indeed, every thing which is bound is dissoluble; but to be willing to dissolve that which 1s beautifully harmonized and well composed is the property of an evil nature. Hence, so far as you are generated, you are n& immortal, nor in every respect indissoluble, yet you shall never be dissolved, nor become subject to the fatality of death; my will being a much greater and more excellent bond than the vital connectives YY Seoimtelsooks (CO mn