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Christians are not distinguished from the rest of Adam by country, language, or ordinary clothing.
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They do not inhabit cities belonging only to themselves.
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They do not use a strange private tongue.
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They do not organize daily life around an eccentric human philosophy.
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They dwell in Hellenic and non-Hellenic cities according to the lot given to each.
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They follow local customs in clothing, food, and the visible arrangements of life, yet display a manner of communal conduct the writer considers extraordinary.
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They live in their own countries but as resident foreigners.
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They share in ordinary civic obligations but endure the condition of strangers.
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Every foreign country can become homeland to them, and every homeland can be treated as foreign.
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They marry and bear children, but the text says they do not expose or cast away their children.
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They share meals but not sexual partners.
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They live in flesh but do not order life merely according to bodily appetite.
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They live upon earth while regarding their citizenship as belonging in the heavens.
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They obey established laws while their conduct is said to exceed the laws.
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They love everyone and are persecuted by many.
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They are unknown yet condemned; put to death yet regarded as receiving life.
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They are poor yet enrich many.
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They lack many possessions yet give thanks as though abounding.
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They are dishonored, and within dishonor the writer says they are glorified.
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They are slandered and then vindicated.
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They are insulted and answer with blessing.
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They are harmed and respond with honor.
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When they do good they are punished as though evil, and when punished they rejoice as though life had been given.
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Yehudim oppose them as outsiders and Hellenes persecute them, yet the author says their enemies cannot give a coherent reason for the hatred.