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ARGUMENTS OF CELSUS, PORPHYRY, and THE EMPEROR JULIAN, AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS;
CONTAINING:
THE ORATION OF LIBANIUS IN DEFENCE OF THE TEMPLES
OF THE HEATHENS, TRANSLATED BY DR. LARDNER;
AND EXTRACTS FROM BINGHAM'S ANTIQUITIES
OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
"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.
INTRODUCTION.
The author of the following Collectanea has partially effected what Dr. Warburton wished
As the answer, however, of Origen to the arguments of Celsus is very futile and inefficient, it would be admirable to see some one of the learned divines with which the church at present abounds, leap into the arena, and by vanquishing Celsus, prove that the Christian religion is peculiarly adapted to the present times, and to the interest of the priests by whom it is professed and disseminated.
The Marquis D'Argens published a translation in French, accompanied by the Greek text, of the arguments of the Emperor Julian against the Christians; and as an apology for the present work, I subjoin the following translation of a part of his preliminary discourse, in which he defends that publication.
"It may be that certain half-witted gentleman
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