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"For if indeed Julian had caused all those that were under his dominion to be richer than Midas, and each of the cities greater than Babylon once was, and had also surrounded each of them with a golden wall, but had corrected none of the existing errors respecting divinity, he would have acted in a manner similar to a physician, who receiving a body full of evils in each of its parts, should cure all of them except the eyes."—Liban. Parental, in Julian, p. 285.


CONTENTS


[ INTRODUCTION. ]

[ THE ARGUMENTS OF CELSUS AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS ]

[ EXTRACTS FROM, AND INFORMATION RELATIVE TO, THE TREATISE OF PORPHYRY ]

[ A FRAGMENT OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH BOOK OF DIODORUS SICULUS. ]

[ FROM MANETHO RESPECTING THE ISRAELITES. ]

[ EXTRACTS FROM THE FIFTH BOOK OF TACITUS RESPECTING THE JEWS, AS ]

[ EXTRACTS FROM THE WORKS OF THE EMPEROR JULIAN RELATIVE TO THE ]

[ APPENDIX ]

[ EXTRACTS FROM BINGHAM'S ANTIQUITIES OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH*, ]




ILLUSTRATIONS


[ Celsus ]

[ Porphyry ]

[ Julian ]

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