He said some things about you that people aren't supposed to say, but I hope you don't hurt him anyway. Dear God, I want to be just like my Daddy when I get big, only without so much hair all over. For nowhere do they live in cities of their own, nor do they speak some unusual dialect, nor do they practice an eccentric lifestyle. This teaching of theirs has not been discovered by the thought and reflection of ingenious men, nor do they promote any human doctrine, as some do. But while they live in both Greek and barbarian cities, as each one's lot was cast, and follow the local customs in dress and food and other aspects of life, at the same time they demonstrate the remarkable and admittedly unusual nature of their own citizenship.
Every foreign country is their fatherland, and every fatherland is foreign.
They marry like everyone else, and have children, but do not expose their children. They share their food, but not their wives. They live on the earth, but their citizenship is in heaven. They love everyone, and by everyone they are persecuted. They are dishonored, yet they are glorified in their dishonor.