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Julian’s Dying Exclamation

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 19, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 27, No. 3.

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Julian’s Dying Exclamation

“GALILEAN, THOU HAST CONQUERED.” Such was the dying exclamation of Julian, the Roman emperor. Though once a professed Christian, he apostatized from the faith, and employed all his energies for the overthrow of the religion of Jesus and the establishment of idolatry. He shut up Christian sanctuaries, re-opened and patronized heathen temples, and in face of the positive assertion of Christ, that the Jewish Temple at Jerusalem should remain in ruins, impiously attempted to rebuild it. But he contended against One far mightier than himself, and was forced to submit. Wounded in battle by a Persian lance, he took a handful of his blood, and casting it towards Heaven cried, “O Galilean, thou hast conquered!”