The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 89: what you’re looking at

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66 THE EMPEROR FULIAN'S ARGUMENTS You, however, apply yourselves to those things which God from the beginning execrated, both through Moses and the prophets; but you refuse to bring victims to the altar and to sacrifice. For fire does not descend as in the time of Moses, to. consume the victims, This once took place under Moses, and again under Elias the Thesbite, a long time after. That Moses, however, thought it re- quisite that adventitious fire ought to be intro- duced, and farther still, the patriarch Abraham prior to him, I will briefly show. Cyril then observes, that Julian having reminded the reader of the history of Isaac, again adduces Abel as an example, and says, that he when he sacrificed had not fire from heaven, but that it was externally brought to the altars. He also inquires why God praised the sacrifice of Abel, but rejected that of Cain; and what the meaning is of those words, “If you rightly offer, but do not rightly divide, will you not sin? Be quiet.”” (Gen. iv.) Julian endeavours to adapt these words to the di- vination pertaining to victims. For, says he, the sacrifice to God through animals is more acceptable to him than the. sacrifice from the fruits of the earth. Y Scomresooks,.c® mn