Julian’s Laws Against the Christians

Countless other deeds were dared at that time, on land and sea, all over the world, by the wicked against the just. For now the enemy of God began, without any disguise, to make laws against true religion. First of all, he forbade the sons of the Galileans, which is what he tried to call the worshipers of the Savior, to take part in the study of poetry, rhetoric and philosophy. “For,” he said, in the words of the proverb, “we are shot with arrows feathered from our own wings.” From our own books, he meant, they take up arms and make war on us. [a] After this he issued another decree, ordering that the Galileans be expelled from the army.