The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 61: what you’re looking at

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38 THE EMPEROR FULIAN'S ARGUMENTS Epidaurus. But thence becoming multiplied in his progressions, he extended his saving right hand to all the earth He came to Pergamus, to Ionia, to Tarentum, and afterwards to Rome, Thence he went to the island Co, afterwards to fEgas ; and at length to wherever there is land and sea. Nor did we individually, but collectively experience his beneficence. And at one and the same time, he corrected souls that were wandering in error, and bodies that were infirm. But what thing of this kind can the Hebrews boast as the gift of God, to whom you have fled from us? If, therefore, you had attended to their assertions, you would not have been entirely unfortunate; but though you would have been worse than when you were with us, yet, at the same time, your endurance would have been light and tolerable. For you would have reverenced one God instead of many, and not @ man as you do now, or rather many unfortunate men. You would also have used a law hard and rough, and having much of the rustic and barbaric, instead of our equitable and philanthropic laws. And, in other things, you would have been in a worse mm | COMME DOOKS.CO