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64 THE EMPEROR $ULIAN'S ARGUMENTS Whether, therefore, is this God, the word, who was made flesh, the only-begotten son which 1s in the bosom of the father? And if, indeed, it is as I think it is, you also have certainly seen God. For he dwelt among you, and you beheld his glory. Why, therefore, do you say that no one has ever seen God? For you have ‘beheld, if not God the father, yet certainly, God the word. But if the only-begotten God is one person, and, God the word, another, as I have heard some of your sect assert, neither John it seems has any longer. dared to say this. _ This evil, however, received its beginning from John. But who can execrate as it deserves what you have invented in addition to this, by imtro- ducing many recent dead bodies to that ancient dead body? You have filled all places with sepul- chres and monuments, though it is never said by you any where, that you are to roll about sepul- chres and worship them. But you have proceeded to that degree of depravity, as to think that not even the words of Jesus of Nazareth are to be attended to on thus subject. “Woe unto you scribes and pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like Y Scomresooks,.c© mn