The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 66: what you’re looking at

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AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. 43 Hebrews in a miserable and barbaric state ; though the depraved Eusebius pretends that they had hexameter verses among them, and is ambi- tious to prove that the Hebrews were acquainted with logic, the name of which he had heard from the Greeks. What form of medicine ever appeared among the Hebrews, such as that of Hippocrates among the Greeks, and of certain other sects posterior to him? > Is the most wise Solomon to be compared with the Phocylides, or Theognis, or Isocrates of the Greeks? If, indeed, you compare the exhortations of Isocrates with the proverbs of Solomon, I well know you will find that the son of Theodorus surpasses the most wise king. But he, say they, was exercised in the worship of divinity. What then? Did not this Solomon also worship our gods, being deceived, as they say, by a woman? O magnitude of virtue! O riches of wisdom! He had not vanquished pleasure, and the words of a woman perverted him. If, therefore, he was deceived by a woman, do not call this a wise man. But if you believe that he was a wise man, do not think that he was deceived by a woman, but Gonnic HOO) SS (CO mn