Forgery and Counterforgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in Early Christian Polemics (125 page)

On the basis of such verbatim similarities, Hagedorn concludes strongly: “The only possible explanation for the topical and linguistic/stylistic parallels between the three works is the identity of their author.”
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Moreover, this author, Julian, shows his theological cards in the Commentary on Job. A key passage is the loaded comment on Job 37:22–23:
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There is no one who is similar
to him
with respect to his being or his power. In being because he is
; in power because he is the father of the son. Nor is anyone else the cause of all things or the
nor is there another mediator of the genesis of these things except the
. (There follows a citation of John 1:1–3). He is not the Word as a “voice” nor is he God, in the sense of having no beginning
but he is “Word” in the sense of being born directly from the will and power, not by the suffering of nature
not through a division of his being
…. Great is the glory of the All powerful; great is the honor due to him … ; he is incomparable both in nature and in power
. There is nothing equal to him [of the same substance] or like him
. For he is incomparable, and we will find no other that is like him and his power
.