1Chapter 5 — The manners of the Christians.
2For the Christians are distinguished from other men neither by country, nor language, nor the customs which they observe.
3For they neither inhabit cities of their own, nor employ a peculiar form of speech, nor lead a life which is marked out by any singularity.
4The course of conduct which they follow has not been devised by any speculation or deliberation of inquisitive men; nor do they, like some, proclaim themselves the advocates of any merely human doctrines.
5But, inhabiting Greek as well as barbarian cities, according as the lot of each of them has determined, and following the customs of the natives in respect to clothing, food, and the rest of their ordinary conduct, they display to us their wonderful and confessedly striking method of life.
6They dwell in their own countries, but simply as sojourners.
7As citizens, they share in all things with others, and yet endure all things as if foreigners.
8Every foreign land is to them as their native country, and every land of their birth as a land of strangers.
9They marry, as do all others; they beget children; but they do not destroy their offspring.
10They have a common table, but not a common bed.
11They are in the flesh, but they do not live after the flesh.
12They pass their days on earth, but they are citizens of heaven.
13They obey the prescribed laws, and at the same time surpass the laws by their lives.
14They love all men, and are persecuted by all.
15They are unknown and condemned; they are put to death, and restored to life.
16They are poor, yet make many rich; they are in lack of all things, and yet abound in all; they are dishonoured, and yet in their very dishonour are glorified.
17They are evil spoken of, and yet are justified; they are reviled, and bless; they are insulted, and repay the insult with honour; they do good, yet are punished as evil-doers.
18When punished, they rejoice as if quickened into life; they are assailed by the Jews as foreigners, and are persecuted by the Greeks; yet those who hate them are unable to assign any reason for their hatred.