Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... years. So long as Constantius lived, however, Julian could not safely declare himself, and it was not therefore until 360, when he was himself proclaimed Emperor at Paris, that he was in a secure position to make a public declaration of his change of religion. 3 the relations of julian with christianity Julian had continued to make at least some outward profession of Christianity until the death of Constantius.1 Apparently he had been an active Christian up to the time of his association with Maximus (351-2), for he is credited with helping his brother Gallus to raise a shrine to St. Mammas in Cappadocia,2 and there is no reason to doubt that he was ordained to the minor office of reader in the Church. As late as 361 he celebrated the festival of the Epiphany.3 Miss Gardner has made the startling suggestion that Julian was never baptized, on the grounds that Constantine's house, following the example of their ancestor, only sought baptism in 1 Jul., Ep.., 51.' 1 Sozomen, v.2. Amm. Marc, xx1.2. But I shall suggest an explanation of this later. extremis. But apart from the fact that an unbaptized person could not well have held office in the Church, there is a final argument to be found in the fact, related by Sozomen and Gregory,1 that Julian sought by the Taurobolium and other expiatory rites to wash away from his body the traces of baptism, and especially from his hands the sacred touch of the Eucharist. The years 351-2 may be taken as the period of his definite intellectual rejection of Christianity, and Gregory even claims to have seen signs of that change much earlier.2 He concealed his personal opinions at first, whether from mental hesitation, or from lack of opportunity, until his removal to Gaul. There in a pagan..."
