The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 63: what you’re looking at

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40 THE EMPEROR FULIANS ARGUMENTS This, however, I know not how, has been ‘said by me, as if under the influence of divine inspira- tion. But that I may return whence I digressed ; why, being ungrateful to our gods, have you fled to the Jews? Is it because the gods have given empire to Rome, but to the Jews liberty for a very little time, and perpetual slavery and exile? Consider Abraham, was he not a stranger in a foreign land? Jacob, was he not at first among the Syrians, afterwards in Palestine, and when an old man, a slave among the Egyptians? Did not Moses bring them from the house of bondage, from Egypt, with an elevated arm? And when they inhabited Palestine, did they not change their fortune more frequently than those say who have seen the chamzleon change its colour, they one time being obedient to judges, and at another being slaves to those of a different trike ? And when they were under the dominion of kings, (I omit at present how this happened, for neither did God willingly grant that they should be governed by kings, as the scripture says, but this was the effect of compulsion, and when he had previously told them that they would be vilely COMME OOKS (CO mn