(taken from my current ethics class notes)
For the Christians are not distinguished from other men neither by country, nor language, nor the customs which they observe. For 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. … They dwell in their own country, but simply as sojourners. As citizens, they share in all things with others, and yet endure all things as foreigners. Every foreign land is to them as their native country, and every land of their birth as a land of strangers …They obey the prescribed laws, and at the same time surpass the laws by their lives. They love all men, and are persecuted by all.(V)
To sum up all in one word – what the soul is to the body, that are Christians in the world. The soul is dispersed through all the members of the body, and Christians are scattered through all the cities of the world…. The soul loves the flesh that hates it… (VI)
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