The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 51: what you’re looking at

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28 THE EMPEROR FULIANS ARGUMENTS cause: “For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children. ‘Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. Remember the Sabbath day. Honour thy father and mother. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not bear false witness. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s goods.” What nation is there, by the gods, exclusive of the mandates “Thou shalt not worship other gods,” and ‘Remember the Sabbath,” which does not think it requisite to ob- serve the other commandments? Hence punish- ments are established in all nations for those that transpress them, m some more severe, in others similar to those appointed in the laws of Moses ; and there is, also, where they are more philan- thropic. But the commandment, Thou shalt not worship other gods, is calumniating divinity in a very high degree. For God is said to be a jealous God; and in another place, to be a consuming fire. When a man, therefore, is jealous and envious, does he appear to you to deserve reprehension; and are you to be considered as divinely inspired, tf God is said CONMIE DOOKS.CO mn