The Arguments of the Emporor Julian Against the Christians: Translated from the Greek Fragments Preserved by Cyril Bishop of Alexandria; To Which Are Added Extracts from the Other Works of Julian Relative to the Christians
The Arguments of the Emporor Julian Against the Christians: Translated from the Greek Fragments Preserved by Cyril Bishop of Alexandria; To Which Are Added Extracts from the Other Works of Julian Relative to the Christians
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ... ARGUMENTS OF THE EMPEROR JULIAN AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. It appears to me to be proper that I should explain to all men the causes through which I am persuaded that the fraudulent machination of the Galilseans (aKivwpid) is the fiction of men, composed with an evil intention; and that it possesses indeed ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ... ARGUMENTS OF THE EMPEROR JULIAN AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS. It appears to me to be proper that I should explain to all men the causes through which I am persuaded that the fraudulent machination of the Galilseans (aKivwpid) is the fiction of men, composed with an evil intention; and that it possesses indeed nothing divine, but employing that part of the soul which delights in the fabulous, which is puerile and stupid, adduces monstrous narrations in order to a belief of the truth. _. But intending to speak of all their dogmas, as they call them, I am desirous in the first place to observe, that it is requisite the reader, if he wishes to contradict what I assert, should, as in a court of justice, advance nothing foreign to the subject, nor, as it is said, recriminate till the first B 'i H 1: ..., ..) charges have been defended. For thus the proper subject of dispute will be in a better manner and more clearly determined, when he wishes to correct any thing that is advanced by us, and does not recriminate in answering what we consider to be reprehensible. It is, however, worth while briefly to relate whence and how the conception of divinity first came to us. Afterwards, to compare what is said by the Greeks and the Hebrews of the divinity. And in the next place, to interrogate those who are neither Greeks nor Jews, but of the sect of the Galilasans, why they have preferred their own doctrine to ours; and still farther, why not adhering to the tenets of the Jews, but departing from them, they have taken a peculiar road, assenting to nothing beautiful, nothing worthy, neither among us the Greeks, nor among the Hebrews derived from Moses, but collecting from both nations what is pernicious; impiety, indeed, from the Judaic craft; but a depraved and...
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