1. But you, our God, are gracious and true, patient, and in mercy ordering all things.
2. And, indeed, if we sin, we are yours, knowing your greatness; and, if we do not sin, we know that we are counted with you.
3. For to have known you is perfect justice, and to know justice and your virtue is the root of immortality.
4. For the skillful planning of evil men has not led us into error, nor the shadow of a picture, a fruitless labor, an image having been sculpted through the use of diverse colors,