The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 70: what you’re looking at

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AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. 47 abandoning these, do you betake yourselves to © those? | Why, also, do you neither continue in the doctrine of the Hebrews, nor embrace the law which God. gave them; but abandoning paternal rites, and giving yourselves up to those whom the prophets proclaimed, dissent more from them than from us? For if any one wishes to consider the truth respecting you, he will find that your im- piety is composed from the Judaic audacity, and the indolence and confusion of the heathens, And deriving from both not that which is most beautt- ful, but the worst, you have fabricated a web of evils. With the Hebrews, indeed, there are ac- curate and venerable laws pertaiming to religion, and mnumerable precepts which require a most holy life and previous choice. But when the Jewish legislator forbids serving the gods, and enjoins the worship of one alone, whose portion is Jacob, and Israel the line of his inheritance, and not only says this, but also adds, I think, “you © shall not revile the gods,” the detestable wicked- ness and audacity of those in after-times, wishing to take away all religious reverence from the ) ‘ \ q COIN G HOO) SS (CO mn