The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 52: what you’re looking at

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AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. 29 by you to be jealous? Though how is it reason- able to assert of God a thing which 1s so manifestly a lie? For if he is jealous, all the gods are adored, he being unwilling, and all other nations worship the gods. Why, therefore, does not he who is so jealous, and who is unwilling that the other gods should be adored, but desirous that himself alone should be worshipped,—why does not he prevent this from taking place? Is he not able; or from the first was he unwilling to forbid the other gods from being worshipped? But the first is impious, to assert that he is not able; and the second ac- cords with our deeds. Abandon, then, this nugacity, and do not draw such great blasphemy upon yourselves, For if God wished that no one should be adored but himself, why do you adore this son, whom God never thought, nor ever will think to be his own? And this I can easily show. But you, I know not whence, ascribe to him a spurious son. Why, therefore, is it no-where seen that God is angry, or indignant with, or swears on account of these things, or rapidly inclines to both sides, as Moses says of Phinehas? If any one of you reads EU ee eG epee aE ge °Y N2omnn G HOO SS (CO mn