If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated [a reference to baptism], live a happy life.

Sound doctrine does not enter into the hard and disobedient heart; but, as if beaten back, enters anew into itself.

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.

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.

When we say that Jesus Christ was produced without sexual union, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended to heaven, we propound nothing new or different from what you believe regarding those whom you call the sons of Jupiter.

No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false.

And if we even affirm that He was born of a virgin, accept this in common with what you accept of Perseus.