The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 83: what you’re looking at

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60 THE EMPEROR ¥ULIAN'S ARGUMENTS fore, the hog, from the vision of Peter, now ranks among those animals that chew the cud, shall we believe in him? For it would be truly prodigious if he should have this faculty after the vision of Peter. But if Peter feigned that he saw this reve- lation, that I may speak after your manner, at the tanner’s house, why do you so readily assent in a thing of such consequence? For what difhcult thing would he have enjoined you, if he had for- bidden you to eat, besides swine, winged and - aquatic animals, affirming that these also, as well as those, are rejected by God, and considered as impure? But why am I thus prolix in relating what‘ is said by them, when it may be seen whether their assertions possess any strength ? For they say that God besides the former established a second law. That the former law was for a season circumscribed by a definite time ; but that this posterior law made its appearance, because it was adumbrated in the time and by the type of Moses. That they assert this, however, falsely, I will clearly demonstrate, producing from Moses not only ten, but a thou- sand testimonies, in which he says, that the law is Y Scomrasooks,.c® mn