3. He [Julian] ² was daily growing more infuriated against us, as though raising up waves by other waves, he that went mad first against himself, that trampled upon things holy, and that did despite unto the Spirit of Grace: is it more proper to call him Jeroboam or Ahab, those most wicked of the Israelites; or Pharaoh the Egyptian, or Nebuchadnezzar the Assyrian; or combining all together shall we name him one and the same, since he shows himself to have united in himself the vices of them all----the apostasy of Jeroboam, the bloodthirstiness of Ahab, the hardness of heart of Pharaoh, the sacrilegious acts of Nebuchadnezzar, the impiety of all put together! For when he had exhausted every other resource, and despised every other form of tyranny in our regard as trifling and unworthy of him (since there never was a character so fertile in finding out and contriving mischief), at last he stirred up against us the nation of the Jews, making his accomplice in his machinations their well-known credulity, as well as that hatred for us which has smouldered in them from the very beginning; prophesying to them out of their own books and mysteries that now was the appointed time come for them to return into their own land, and to rebuild the Temple, and restore the reign of their hereditary institutions ---- thus hiding his true purpose under the mark of benevolence.

Γʹ. Ἐμαίνετο καθ' ἡμῶν ἀεί τι πλέον, ὥσπερ κύμασιν ἐπεγείρων κύματα, ὁ καθ' ἑαυτοῦ πρῶτον μανεὶς καὶ πατήσας τὰ ἅγια, καὶ τὸ Πνεῦμα τῆς χάριτος ἐνυβρίσας. Ἱεροβοὰμ εἰπεῖν οἰκειότερον, ἢ Ἀχαὰβ τὸν Ἰσραηλίτην, τοὺς παρανομωτάτους, ἢ Φαραὼ τὸν Αἰγύπτιον, ἢ Ναβουχοδονόσορ τὸν Ἀσσύριον, ἢ ταῦτα πάντα συνελόντες, ἕνα καὶ τὸν αὐτὸν ὀνομάσομεν: ἐπεὶ καὶ τὰς πάντων κακίας εἰς ἑαυτὸν συλλεξάμενος φαίνεται, Ἱεροβοὰμ τὴν ἀποστασίαν, Ἀχαὰβ τὴν μιαιφονίαν, Φαραὼ τὴν σκληρότητα, Ναβουχοδονόσορ τὴν ἱεροσυλίαν, πάντων ὁμοῦ τὴν ἀσέβειαν. Ἐπεὶ δὲ πάντα διεξελθὼν τἆλλα, καὶ πᾶν εἶδος τῆς καθ' ἡμῶν τυραννίδος, ὡς μικρόν τι καὶ ἀγεννὲς ἀτιμάσας (οὐ γὰρ ἐγένετο ποριμωτέρα φύσις ἐκείνης εἰς κακῶν εὕρεσιν καὶ ἐπίνοιαν), τέλος ἐπαφῆκε καὶ τὸ Ἰουδαίων φῦλον ἡμῖν τὴν παλαιάν τε αὐτῶν κουφότητα, καὶ τὸ καθ' ἡμῶν ἄνωθεν ὑποσμυχόμενον ἐν αὐτοῖς μῖσος συνεργὸν λαβὼν τοῦ τεχνάσματος, ἐπιθειάζων τε δῆθεν ἐκ τῶν παρ' αὐτοῖς βίβλων καὶ ἀποῤῥήτων, ὡς νῦν αὐτοῖς ἀποκείμενον εἴη κατελθεῖν εἰς τὴν ἑαυτῶν, καὶ τὸν νεὼν ἀναδείμασθαι, καὶ τῶν πατρίων τὸ κράτος ἀνανεώσασθαι, καὶ ἀποκρυπτόμενος εὐνοίας πλάσματι τὴν ἐπίνοιαν.