The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 60: what you’re looking at

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AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. 37 After this, Julian having said, that divination is the gift of the gods, observes as follows: For the inspiration which comes to men from the gods, is rare, and exists but in a few. Nor is It easy for every man to partake of this, nor at every time. This has ceased among the Hebrews, nor is it preserved to the present time among the Egyptians. Spontaneous oracles, also, are seen to yield to periods of time. This, how- ever, our philanthropic lord and father Jupiter understanding, that we might not be entirely deprived of communion with the gods, has given to us observation through sacred arts, by which we have at hand sufficient assistance. I had almost, however, forgotten the greatest of the gifts of the sun and Jupiter: but I have very properly preserved it to the last. For it is not peculiar to us only, but is common also, I think, to our kindred the Greeks. For Jupiter, in intelligibles, generated from himself Esculapius; but he was unfolded into light on the earth, through the prolific life of the sun. He, there- fore, proceeding from heaven to the earth, appeared uniformly in a human shape about (SO) mn G HOO) SS (CO