The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 75: what you’re looking at

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52 THE EMPEROR fULIANS ARGUMENTS - being discordant with each other about his ge- nealogy. The discussion of this, however, we shall omit, as we intend accurately to explore the truth of it, in the second book. Let it then be granted that his sceptre was from Judah, yet he was not God from God, according to what is said by you; nor were all things made by him, and without him nothing was made. But it is also said in Num- bers, °“.A star shall arise from Jacob, and a man from {srael.”. (Num. xxiv. 17.) That this pertains to David, and his descendants, is very evident. For David was the son of Jesse. If, -therefore, you can prove what you assert from these words, demonstrate that you can, deriving one word from thence, whence I have taken many. But that Moses thought his one God to be the God of Israel, he says in Deuteronomy, “That thou mightest know that the Lord thy God is one, and there is none else beside him,” (Deut. iv. 35.) And again, “Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord thy God is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.” (Deut. COMME OOKS (CO mn