Chapter 1

¹ I will glorify Jesus Christ the God who has made you so wise; for I have seen that you are established in unshakeable faith, as if nailed to the Cross of the Lord Jesus Christ in both flesh and spirit, and firmly grounded in love in the blood of Christ, fully convinced concerning our Lord, who is truly of the race of David according to the flesh, Son of God according to the will and power of God, truly begotten of a Virgin, baptized by John, that all righteousness might be fulfilled by him;

² truly in the time of Pontius Pilate and Herod the tetrarch nailed for us in the flesh, from whose fruit we are—from his divinely blessed passion—that he might raise up a banner for the ages through the resurrection to his holy and faithful ones, whether among Jews or among nations, in one body of his Church.