The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 36: what you’re looking at

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

AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. 13 man, would be the cause of his fall, and to forbid him the knowledge of good and evil, which alone appears to be the connective bond of human life; and besides this to be envious, lest by partaking of life, from being mortal he should become im- mortal, is the province of a being very envious — and malevolent. But the opinion which they have rightly formed of the God whom they celebrate, that he is the proximate Demiurgus of this world, our fathers have delivered to us from the beginning. For of the natures superior to this God, Moses in short says nothing, as neither has he ventured to say anything of the nature of angels; but that they minister to God, he frequently says, and in many places. But whether they are generated, or are unbegotten, or whether they are produced by one cause, and ordered to be ministrant to another, or were produced after some other manner, is no- where determined. He narrates, however, about the heaven and the earth, and its contents, and after what manner they were adorned. And some things, he says, God: ordered to be made, such as the day, and the light, and the firmament; (SO) mn G HOO) SS (CO