The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 43: what you’re looking at

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20 THE EMPEROR FULIAN’S ARGUMENTS city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth, And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men had builded. And the Lord said, Behold the people is one, and they have all one language ; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city and the tower.” Do you think fit then to believe in these things, but disbelieve what is related by Homer of the Aloidz, who formed the design of placing three mountains on each other, that heaven might be accessible ? Proud of their strength, and more than mortal size, The Gods they challenge, and affect the skies ; Heav'd on Olympus tott’ring Ossa stood ; On QOssa Pelion nods with all his wood.t Opyss. II. v. 315. Tt The translation is by Pope. CONMIE DOOKS.CO LI]