Translations
Such a person should understand: what we are in word through letters when absent, we will prove to be in action when we arrive.
Let such a person reckon this—that what we are in word through letters when absent, we will be in deed when present.
Let such an one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
Such people should consider that what we are in our letters when absent, we will be in our actions when present.