commendo Promotum gerulum litterarum, vobis quidem ante iam cognitum, sed nostrum nuper effectum vestris orationibus contribulem; qui cum sit gente Iudaeus, fide tamen praeelegit censeri Israelita quam sanguine, et municipatum caelestis illius civitatis affectans occidentemque litteram spiritu vivificante fastidiens, pariter huc iustis praemia proposita contemplans, huc, nisi faceret ad Christum de circumcisione transfugium, praevidens sese per aeterna saecula aequiterna supplicia passurum, patriam sibi maluit Ierusalem potius quam Hierusolymam computari.
I commend to you Promotus, the bearer of my letter, who is already known to you, but has recently, through your prayers, been made a member of our tribe. A Jew by race, he has now chosen to be accounted an Israelite by faith rather than by blood. Aiming at citizenship of the Heavenly City and, by the power of the spirit that giveth life, scorning the letter that killeth, viewing, on the one hand, the rewards appointed for the just, and on the other hand, foreseeing that through never-ending ages he would suffer never-ending punishment unless he changed from the Circumcision to Christ, he has chosen that the new Jerusalem rather than the old should be considered his country.
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