Julian the Apostate . Coin of Gratian. To face page 321. JULIAN THE APOSTATE JULIANS ACTION AGAINSTCHRISTIANITY While Julian felt his life in jeopardy, because ofthe suspicion and jealousy of Constantius, or evenduring the time when he represented him in thegovernment of Gaul, he naturally concealed hisideas, his faith, and those intentions which hecould only accomplish if he should ever attainsupreme power. During all these years of neces-sary dissimulation, the young enthusiast, whoamidst the cares of war and administration neverneglected his studies and meditations, became evermore ferventl
Julian the Apostate . Coin of Gratian. To face page 321. JULIAN THE APOSTATE JULIANS ACTION AGAINSTCHRISTIANITY While Julian felt his life in jeopardy, because ofthe suspicion and jealousy of Constantius, or evenduring the time when he represented him in thegovernment of Gaul, he naturally concealed hisideas, his faith, and those intentions which hecould only accomplish if he should ever attainsupreme power. During all these years of neces-sary dissimulation, the young enthusiast, whoamidst the cares of war and administration neverneglected his studies and meditations, became evermore fervently zealous in his love of Hellenism,and in his desire to save it from the danger °finvading Christianity, his ardour necessarily be-coming more intense because of his inability toexpress it openly. But ever remembering hisstrained relations with Constantius, he to< painsnot t?o compromise himself by any act that mightsome lay create insuperable difficulties. We haveseen, on the contrary, that, after he had been VOL
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