Theodoret wasn't born for another 60 years after the alleged events, Sozomen 40 years later, and Socrates Scholasticus finished his work 80 years after the fact. [/quote]

WHY wasn't the temple rebuilt? You explain that because Julian declared them to do it.


Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven.