15. And certainly, if I were pleading according to
the law of nations, I could tell how many of the Church’s
basilicas the Jews burnt in the time of the Emperor Julian: two
at Damascus, one of which is scarcely now repaired, and this at the
cost of the Church, not of the Synagogue; the other basilica still is a
rough mass of shapeless ruins. Basilicas were burnt at Gaza,
Ascalon, Berytus, and in almost every place in those parts, and no one
demanded
punishment. And at
Alexandria a basilica was burnt by heathen and Jews, which surpassed
all the rest. The Church was not avenged, shall the Synagogue be
so?