The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 79: what you’re looking at

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86 THE EMPEROR fFULIAN'S ARGUMENTS gotten word, or son of God, or in whatever manner you may call him, if he had known him? But because he thought this a great thing, he says of Israel, “My first-born son, Israel.” (Exod. iv. 22.) Why, therefore, did not Moses say this of Jesus? He taught, indeed, that there is only one God, and that many of his sons are distributed among the nations, but he neither knew from the beginning, nor does he clearly teach anything about the first-born son, or God, the word, or any of those things which afterwards were falsely devised by you. Hear, then, Moses and the other prophets. Moses, indeed, asserts many such things, and every- where. ‘Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”’ (Deut. vi. 13.) How then is Jesus in the gospels said to have commanded, “ Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the holy ghost,” if they were to adore him also? You, likewise, conceiving im conformity to this, theologize about the son in conjunction with the father. Hear again, therefore, what Moses says of the Averrunci: “And he shall take of the congregation COMME OOKS CO