16 Doing good they are punished as evil-doers; being punished they rejoice, as if they were thereby quickened by life. (DIO) 17 War is waged against them as aliens by the Jews, and persecution is carried on against them by the Greeks, and yet those that hate them cannot tell the reason of their hostility. (DIO)
Epistle to Diognetus 5:16–17
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