The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 88: what you’re looking at

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AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. 65 unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beau- tiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.” (Matt. xxii. 27.) If, therefore, Jesus says that sepulchres are full of uncleanness, how is it that you invoke God upon them? | To this Julian adds, that when a certain dis- ciple said to Christ, “ Lord, suffer me to go and bury my father,” he answered him, “ Follow me, and let the dead bury the dead.” (Matt. viti. 21.) This, then, being the case, why do you roll about sepulchres? Are you willing to hear the cause? Not I, but the prophet Isaiah will tell it. ‘“<They sleep in sepulchres and caves on account of dreams.” (Isaiah Ixv. 4.) Consider, therefore, how ‘this work of incantation, to sleep in sepul- chres for the sake of dreams, was resorted to by the Jews of old. It is probable that your apostles after the death of their master, doing the very same thing, delivered it to you who were the first believers from the beginning, and that they per- formed the incantation more according to the rules of art than you; but to those that came after them publicly exhibited the work-shops of this incantation and execrable employment. INO mn G HOO) SS (CO mn