1-11:11
Καὶ ὑμεῖς, ἀκούσαντες βασιλείαν προσδοκῶντας ἡμᾶς, ἀκρίτως ἀνθρώπινον λέγειν ἡμᾶς ὑπειλήφατε, ἡμῶν τὴν μετὰ θεοῖ λεγόντων, ὡς καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ἀνεταζομένους ὑφ ὑμῶν ὁμολογεῖν εἶναι Χριστιανούς, γινώσκοντες τῷ ὁμολογοῦντι θάνατον τὴν ζημίαν κεῖσθαι, φαίνεται. Εἰ γὰρ ἀνθρώπινον βασιλείαν προσεδοκῶμεν, κἂν ἠρνούμεθα, ὅπως μὴ ἀναιρώμεθα, καὶ λανθάνειν ἐπειρώμεθα, ὅπως τῶν προσδοκωμένων τύχωμεν· ἀλλ ἐπεὶ οὐκ εἰς τὸ νῦν τὰς ἐλπίδας ἔχομεν, ἀναιρούντων οὐ πεφροντίκαμεν τοῦ καὶ πάντως ἀποθανεῖν ὀφειλομένου
And you, when you hear that we await a kingdom, have rashly supposed that we mean a human one, although we mean the kingdom that is with God—as is evident from the fact that, when examined by you, we confess that we are Christians, though we know that death is the penalty laid upon him who confesses. For if we were awaiting a human kingdom, we would deny it, in order not to be slain, and would try to escape notice, in order to obtain what we hoped for; but since our hopes are not set on the present, we take no thought of those who put us to death, since in any case we must surely die.
你們聽見我們在等候一個國度，便輕率地以為我們所指的是人間的國度，其實我們所指的是那與神同在的國度——這從以下事實可以顯明：我們受你們審問時，明知承認者所定的刑罰是死，卻仍承認自己是基督徒。因為我們若是等候一個人間的國度，就必否認，免得被殺，並要設法隱藏，好得著所盼望的；但我們既不把指望放在今生，就不顧念那些置我們於死地的人，因為無論如何我們終必一死。