And you, when you hear that we await a kingdom, have rashly supposed that we mean a human one, although we mean the kingdom that is with God—as is evident from the fact that, when examined by you, we confess that we are Christians, though we know that death is the penalty laid upon him who confesses. For if we were awaiting a human kingdom, we would deny it, in order not to be slain, and would try to escape notice, in order to obtain what we hoped for; but since our hopes are not set on the present, we take no thought of those who put us to death, since in any case we must surely die.