ir lawgiver;
and with many miracles and signs made he known unto them his power.
But, like the rest, these proved ungrateful and unprofitable, and often
worshipped images of the heathen, and killed the prophets and righteous
men that were sent unto them. Then, when it pleased the Son of God to
come on earth, they did shamefully entreat him and deliver him to
Pilate the Roman governor, and condemn him to the Cross, regardless of
his benefits and the countless miracles that he had worked amongst
them. Wherefore by their own lawlessness they perished. For though to
this day they worship the One Omnipotent God, yet it is not according
unto knowledge; for they deny Christ the Son of God, and are like the
heathen, although they seem to approach the truth from which they have
estranged themselves. So much for the Jews.

"As for the Christians, they trace their line from the Lord Jesus
Christ. He is confessed to be the Son of the most high God, who came
down from heaven, by the Holy Ghost, for the salvation of mankind, and
was born of a pure Virgin, without seed of man, and without defilement,
and took flesh, and appeared among men, that he might recall them from
the error of worshipping many gods. When he had accomplished his
marvellous dispensation, of his own free will by a mighty dispensation
he tasted of death upon the Cross. But after three days he came to
life again, and ascended into the heavens, the glory of whose coming
thou mayest learn, O king, by the reading of the holy Scripture, which
the Christians call the Gospel, shouldst thou meet therewith. This
Jesus had twelve disciples, who, after his ascent into the heavens,
went out into all the kingdoms of the world, telling of his greatness.
Even so one of them visited our coasts, preaching the doctrine of
truth; whence they who still serve the righteousness of his preaching
are called Christians. And these are they who, above all the nations
of the earth, have found the truth: for they acknowledge God the
Creator and Maker of all things in the only begotten Son, and in the
Holy Ghost, and other God than him they worship none. They have the
commandments of the Lord Jesus Christ himself engraven on their hearts,
and these they observe, looking for the resurrection of the dead and
the life of the world to come. They neither commit adultery nor
fornication; nor do they bear false witness, nor covet other men's
goods: they honour father and mother, and love their