19. Let us examine him with insult and torture, that we may know his reverence and try his patience.
20. Let us condemn him to a most shameful death, for, according to his own words, God will care for him."
21. These things they thought, and they were mistaken, for their own malice blinded them.
22. And they were ignorant of the mysteries of God; they neither hoped for the reward of justice, nor judged the value of holy souls.
23. For God created man to be immortal, and he made him in the image of his own likeness.
24. But by the envy of the devil, death entered the world,
25. yet they imitate him, who are from his side.