The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 49: what you’re looking at

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26 THE EMPEROR JULIAN'S ARGUMENTS among nations are to be different. This, indeed, is seen in bodies, if any one directs his attention to the Germans and Scythians, and considers how much the bodies of these differ from those of the Lybians and Ethiopians. Is this, therefore, a mere mandate, and does the air contribute nothing, nor the relation and position of the region with respect to the celestial bodies ? Moses, however, though he knew the truth of this, concealed it; nor does he ascribe the con- fusion of tongues to God alone. For he says, that not only God descended, nor one alone with him, but many, though he does not say who they were. But it is very evident, that he conceived those who descended with God to be similar to him. If, therefore, not the Lord only, but those who were with him contributed to this confusion of tongues, they may justly be considered as the causes of this dissonance. _ But to what purpose have I been thus prolix ? For if, indeed, the God who is proclaimed by Moses is the proximate Demiurgus of the world, we form better ,opinions of him, who conceive him to be the common Lord of all things; but CONMIE DOOKS.CO mn