The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 33: what you’re looking at

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10 THE EMPEROR YULIAN’S ARGUMENTS the Greeks and Hebrews as my witnesses There is no one who, when praying, does not extend his hands to the heaven ; or who, when he swears by god or the gods, possessing in short a conception of a divine nature, does not tend thither. Nor is he improperly affected in this manner. For men perceiving that nothing pertaining to the heavens 1s either diminished, or increased, or changed, or sustains any passion of disordered natures; but that its motion is harmonic, its order elegant, that the laws of the moon, and the risings and settings of the sun, are definite; and in definite times, they have very reasonably be- lieved it to be a god, and the throne of god. For a thing of this kind, not being multiplied by any addition, nor diminished by any ablation, and being remote from the mutation according to a change in quality and essence, is free from all corruption and generation. But being naturally immortal and indestructible, it is pure from every kind of stain. Since, also, it is perpetual and im- mutable, as we see, it 1s either moved in a circle about the mighty Demiurgus, by a more excellent and divine soul, inhabiting it, or receiving its CONMIE DOOKS.CO