The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 72: what you’re looking at

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AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. 49 known them to be true. Of these, however, if he wrote so many things in their praise, and they were true, he ought to have blushed ; but if they were false and fictitious, he ought by concealing them to have avoided appearing to employ effemi- nate blandishments and illiberal flattery. What Paul, however, wntes to them about his auditors is as follows: “Be not deceived, neither forn- cators, nor idolators, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And of these things, brethren, you are not igno- rant, because you also were such ;* but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord “fesus.” You see, then, that they were such characters as these, but they were sanctified and washed, water being sufficient to wipe away and purify, which penetrates as far as to the soul! -And baptism, indeed, does not take away the spots of leprosy, nor ring-worms, nor warts, nor the gout, nor the dysentery, nor #* There is some difference here between this and the vulgar translation. CON G HOO) SS (CO mn