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Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

Then Demas and Hermogenes answered both together, and said, Let him be brought before the governor Castellius, as one who endeavours to persuade the people into the new religion of the Christians, and he, according to the order of Cæsar, will put him to death, by which means you will obtain your wife;