The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 64: what you’re looking at

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AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. 4! governed), they only inhabited and cultivated their own land a little more than four hundred years. After that time, they were first in sub- jection to the Assyrians, then to the Medes, then to the Persians, and last of all now to us. Jesus himself, who is so much celebrated by you, was one of those who were in subjection to Ceesar. If you disbelieve this, I will shortly after demon- strate it to you; or rather let it now be shown. For you say that he was registered together with his father and mother under Cesar. But after he was born, of what good was he to his kindred? For it is said, they were unwilling to obey him, How, indeed, did that hard-hearted and stony-necked people obey Moses? But Jesus who commanded spirits, who walked on the sea, and expelled demons, and, as you say, made the heaven and the earth, (for no one of his disciples dared to say this of him, except John alone, nor he clearly and explicitly), could not change the deliberate choice of his friends and kindred to their own salvation. Of these things, however, we shall shortly speak when we begin to explore the monstrous °Y Neon G HOO) SS (CO mn