The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 40: what you’re looking at

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AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. 3 despise us? Why, also, is he a jealous God, punishing the sins of the fathers? But all these are partial conceptions, and unworthy of divinity. Again, therefore, attend to the assertions of our fathers on this subject. *For they say, that the Demiurgus is the common father and king of all things, and that to other nations he has dis- tributed gods, who are the prefects of nations, and the curators of cities, each of which governs his own allotment in an appropriate manner. For since in the father all things are perfect, and all things are one, but in the natures distributed from him, a different power has dominion in a different divinity, hence Mars presides over the warlike concerns of nations; Minerva over the same concerns in conjunction with wisdom; but Hermes over such as rather pertain to sagacity than bold undertakings; and thus the nations which are governed by the several divinities follow the essence of their presiding gods. If, therefore, experience does not bear witness to our asser- tions, let our belief be a fiction, and an unreason- able persuasion: but let your’s be praised. But if entirely on the contrary, experience from C °Y Neon G HOO) SS (CO mn