{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/203/2030087.htm","path":"chr/ecf/203/2030087.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/203/2030087.htm","text":"Chapter IV.\u2014Of the laws made by Julian against the Christians.\nCountless other deeds were dared at that time by land and by sea, all over the world, by the wicked against the just, for now without disguise the enemy of God began to lay down laws against true religion. First of all he prohibited the sons of the Galileans, for so he tried to name the worshippers of the Saviour, from taking part in the study of poetry, rhetoric, and philosophy, for said he, in the words of the proverb \u201cwe are shot with shafts feathered from our own wing,\u201d 617 for from our own books they take arms and wage war against us.\nAfter this he made another edict ordering the Galileans to be expelled from the army.\ncf. Aristophanes (Aves 808) \u201c\u03c4\u03b1\u03b4\u1fbd \u03bf\u1f50\u03c7 \u1f51\u03c0\u1fbd \u1f04\u03bb\u03bb\u03c9\u03bd \u03b1\u03bb\u03bb\u1f70 \u03c4\u03bf\u03b9\u03c2 \u03b1\u1f51\u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u03c0\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u1fd6\u03c2.\u201d","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. III: The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret.: Of the laws made by Julian against the Christians.","type":"page"}