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ℹ️ The Chinese and English alongside are this site's own translation, made directly from the original text on this page (not the CUV or the WEB, which follow the Masoretic Text and a different textual tradition).
Taxes and tribute we everywhere try, before all others, to pay to those whom you have appointed, as we were taught by him. For at that time some came up and asked him whether one ought to pay taxes to Caesar. And he answered: 'Tell me, whose image does the coin bear?' And they said, 'Caesar's.' And again he replied to them: 'Render therefore the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God.' Wherefore we worship God alone, but in other matters we gladly serve you, acknowledging you as kings and rulers of men, and praying that you may be found, together with your royal power, also to have sound judgment. But if you pay no heed even when we pray and lay everything openly before you, we shall suffer no harm, since we believe—rather, are convinced—that each man will pay the penalty by eternal fire according to the worth of his deeds, and will be required to give account in proportion to the powers he received from God, as Christ indicated when he said: 'To whom God has given more, of him shall more be required.'