The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 39: what you’re looking at

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16 THE EMPEROR $ULIAN'S ARGUMENTS Jews alone are. the inheritance of God: and at another time, persuading the Greeks to join them- selves to him, he says, “Is God the God of the Jews only, or also of the heathens? Certainly, he is also the God of the heathens.” It is just, therefore, to ask Paul, if God is not the God of the Jews only, but also of the heathens, on what account he sent among the Jews an abundant prophetic spirit, Moses, unction, and the prophets, the law, miracles, and the prodigies of fables; for you hear them exclaiming, “ Man eat the bread of angels.” And, lastly, why he sent Jesus to them, not a prophet, not unction, not a teacher, not a proclaimer of the philanthropy of God, which would at length be extended to us; but he despised us for myriads, (or if you had rather,) for thousands of years, leaving all of us in such ig- norance as you declare, to worship idols,—we who occupy the earth from the rising to the setting sun, and from the north to the south, excepting a small race of men, who not more than two thou- sand years ago inhabited a corner of Palestine. For if he 1s the God of all of us, and in a similar manner the Demiurgus of all things, why did he °Y AZOLE HOOKS, CO mn