The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 34: what you’re looking at

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AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. 1! motion from divinity, as our bodies from the soul which is in us, it evolves an infinite circle, by an unceasing and eternal motion. Compare with these things the Judaical doctrine, the paradise planted by God, the Adam fashioned by him, and afterwards the woman created for Adam. For God said, it is not good that the man should be alone; I will make an help meet for him. She was not, however, a help meet to him in any thing, but was deceived, and became the cause both to him and herself of being expelled from the delights of Paradise. For these things are perfectly fabulous ; since how is it reasonable to suppose that God was ignorant that the woman who was made as an help meet for Adam, would rather be pernicious than beneficial to him ? As to the serpent that discoursed with Eve, what kind of language shall we say it used! and in what do things of this kind differ from the fables devised by the Greeks ? Is it not also excessively absurd, that God should forbid men fashioned by himself the know- ledge-of good and evil? For what can be more foolish than one who is not able to know what is INO mn G HOO) SS (CO