The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 47: what you’re looking at

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24 THE EMPEROR FULIAN’S ARGUMENTS as the presiding deity of Judea, of which alone he was allotted the guardian care, as Moses says, and those who succeeded him, down to your time ? But if the god worshipped by the Hebrews 1s the proximate Demiurgus of the world, as we form better conceptions of him than they do, he has also bestowed upon us greater goods than upon them, both pertaining to the soul and ex- ternals, of which we shall shortly speak. He has also sent us legislators, in no respect inferior to Moses, but many far superior to him. What then shall we say, but that unless a cer- tain ethnarchic. god presides over every nation, and that under thts god there is an angel, a dzemon, and a peculiar genus of souls, subservient and ministrant to more excellent natures, from whence arises the difference in laws and manners, —unless this 1s admitted, let it be shown by any other how this difference is produced. For it ts not sufhcient to say, “God said, and it was done ;” but it is requisite that the natures of things which are produced should accord with the mandates of divinity. But I will explain more clearly what I mean. God, for imstance, com- CONMMELOOKS (CO mn