evil can be done to us, unless we are proved to be evildoers, or shown to be wicked. You are able to kill us, but not to hurt us.12 3. But that nobody should think that this is an unreasonable and daring utterance, we ask that the charges against us be investigated, and that, if they are substantiated let us be punished as is fitting.13 But if nobody can prove anything against us, true reason forbids you, because of an evil rumor, to wrong innocent people, and
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