The world suffers nothing from Christians but hates them because they reject its pleasures.

And this food is called among us the Eucharist, of which no one is allowed to partake but the man who believes that the things which we teach are true, who has been washed with the washing that is for the remission of sins and to regeneration, and who is so living as Christ has enjoined.

We have strayed from the Immortal's ways And worship with a dull and senseless mind Idols, the workmanship of our own hands, And images and figures of dead men.

We who formerly hated and murdered one another now live together and share the same table. We pray for our enemies and try to win those who hate us.

The world suffers nothing from Christians but hates them because they reject its pleasures.

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.

We pray for our enemies; we seek to persuade those who hate us without cause to live conformably to the goodly precepts of Christ, that they may become partakers with us of the joyful hope of blessings from God, the Lord of all.