The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 82: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. 59 from offering the first fruits of the victims to God. But you who have discovered a new sacrifice, since you are not in want of Jerusalem, why do you not sacrifice? Though, indeed, I say this to you superfluously, since I said it before, when I wished to show that the Jews accorded with the heathens, except in believing that there is only one God. For that is peculiar to them, but foreign from us. Fvery thing else, indeed, is common to us, temples, sacred groves, altars, lustrations, and certain things to be observed; in which we either do not at all, or but little, differ from each other. Why, too, are you not similarly pure in diet with the Jews? But you say it 1s requisite to eat all things as if they were pot-herbs, believing in Peter because he said, “ What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.” (Acts x. 15.) Is this to be considered as an argument, that God formerly thought them defiled, and that now he has made them pure? For Moses speaking of quadrupeds says, “ Whatsoever parteth the hoof and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, is clean,” (Levit. xi. 3.); “ but that which is not of this kind is unclean.” (Deut..xiv. 7.) If, there- °Y Neon G HOO) SS (CO mn