1-8:8
Λογίσασθεδ ὅτι ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν ταῦτα ἔφημεν ἐκ τοῦ ἐφ ἡμῖν εἶναι ἀρνεῖσθαι ἐξεταζομένους. Ἀλλ οὐ βουλόμεθα ζῆν ψευδολογοῦντες· τοῦ γὰρ αἰωνίου καὶ καθαροῦ βίου ἐπιθυμοῦντες τῆς μετὰ θεοῦ τοῦ πάντων πατρὸς καὶ δημιουργοῦ διαγωγῆς ἀντιποιούμεθα, καὶ σπεύδομεν ἐπὶ τὸ ὁμολογεῖν, οἱ πεπεισμένοι καὶ πιστεύοντες τυχεῖν τούτων δύνασθαι τοὺς τὸν θεὸν δι ἔργων πείσαντας, ὅτι αὐτῷ εἵποντο καὶ τῆς παρ αὐτῷ διαγωγῆς ἤρων, ἔνθα κακία οὐκ ἀντιτυπεῖ. Ὡς μὲν οὖν διὰ βραχέων εἰπεῖν,ἅ τε προσδοκῶμεν καὶ μεμαθήκαμεν διὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ διδάσκομεν, ταῦτά ἐστι. Πλάτωνδ ὁμοίως ἔφη Ῥαδάμανθυν καὶ Μίνω κολάσειν τοὺς ἀδίκους παρ αὐτοὺς ἐλθόντας· ἡμεῖς δὲ τὸ αὐτὸ πρᾶγμά φαμεν γενήσεσθαι, ἀλλ ὑπὸ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, κἀν τοῖς αὐτοῖς σώμασι μετὰ τῶν ψυχῶν γινομένων καὶ αἰωνίαν κόλασιν κολασθησομένων, ἀλλ οὐχὶ χιλιονταετῆ περίοδον, ὡς ἐκεῖνος ἔφη, μόνον. Εἰ μὲν οὖν ἄπιστον ἢ ἀδύνατον τοῦτο φήσει τις, πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἥδε ἡ πλάνη ἐστὶν ἀλλ οὐ πρὸς ἕτερον, μέχρις οἷ ἔργῳ μηδὲν ἀδικοῦντες ἐλεγχόμεθα
你們要想想，我們說這些話乃是為你們的緣故，因為受審時我們本有否認的餘地。但我們不願靠說謊度日；因為我們既渴慕那永恆純潔的生命，便竭力爭取與萬有之父、萬有之造物主神同住的福分，並急切要去承認，深信並確信那些藉行為向神顯明自己跟從了祂、渴慕與祂同住、在那裏邪惡毫無立足之地的人，必能得著這些。簡言之，我們所盼望、藉基督所學、並所教導的，就是這事。柏拉圖也曾說，拉達曼提斯與米諾斯要懲罰那些來到他們面前的不義之人；但我們說，同樣的事必要發生，只是要藉基督，並要臨到那連同魂一起復起的同一身體，他們要受永遠的刑罰，而非如他所說僅僅一千年之久。倘若有人說這是難信或不可能的，這錯謬乃是對我們、不是對別人——只要我們在行為上查不出有任何不義。
Consider that we have said these things for your sake, since it lies in our power to deny when we are examined. But we do not wish to live by speaking falsely; for, longing for the eternal and pure life, we strive after fellowship in the abode with God the Father and Maker of all, and we hasten to confess, being persuaded and believing that those can attain these things who have shown God by their works that they followed him and longed for the abode with him, where evil offers no resistance. To speak briefly, then, what we expect and have learned through Christ and teach is this. Plato likewise said that Rhadamanthus and Minos would punish the unjust who came before them; but we say that the same thing will happen, only by Christ, and to the same bodies together with their souls, which will undergo eternal punishment, and not merely a thousand-year period, as he said. But if anyone says this is incredible or impossible, this error is against us and not against another, so long as we are convicted of doing no wrong in deed.