Conclusion

If these things seem to you to be grounded in reason and truth, honor them. But if they seem to you nonsense, despise them as nonsensical things; do not decree death against people who do no wrong as though they were enemies.

For we warn you beforehand that if you persist in injustice, you will not escape the coming judgment of God. And we ourselves will cry out, “Let what is pleasing to God come to pass.”

Although from the letter of the greatest and most illustrious Caesar Hadrian, your father, we could demand that you order judgments to be conducted as we have requested, we have made this address and explanation not primarily because Hadrian decided in this way, but because we know that what we request is just.

We have also appended a copy of Hadrian’s letter so that from this too you may know that we speak truthfully. The copy follows.