The Arguments of the Emperor Julian Against the Christians — page 92: what you’re looking at

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AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. 69 child among you shall be circumcised. And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin ; and it shall be a token of the covenant: between me and you.” (Gen. xvii. 10.) Julian also adds to these things, that Christ himself says that the law ought to be preserved ; for his words are: “Think not that I am come to destroy the law and the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.” (Matt. v. 17.) And again, “ Whosoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the king- dom of heaven.”” (Matt. v. 19.) Since, there- fore, Christ has indubitably commanded the law to be preserved, and has appointed punishments for those who break even one of those mandates, but you in short break all of them, what mode of apology can you invent? For either Jesus speaks falsely, or you are not perfectly observers of the law. , Cyril adds, that Julian also accuses the Gali- lzans, that they neither keep the Sabbath, nor immolate a lamb after the manner of the Jews, nor eat unleavyened bread; and that the only pre- °Y Neon G HOO) SS (CO mn