# Legatio sive Supplicatio pro Christianis 16.67

Athenagoras, Legatio sive Supplicatio pro Christianis, Chapter 16. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/athenagoras/legatio-sive-supplicatio-pro-christianis/16.67

Μαρτυρεῖ δὲ τῷ λόγῳ τούτῳ καὶ Πλάτων· Ὃν γὰρ οὐρανόν, φησί, καὶ κόσμον ἐπωνόμακεν, πολλῶν μὲν μετέσχηκε μακαρίων παρὰ τοῦ πατρός, ἀτὰρ οὖν δὴ κεκοινώνηκε σώματος· ὅθεν αὐτῷ μεταβολῆς ἀμοίρῳ τυγχάνειν ἀδύνατον. Εἰ τοίνυν θαυμάζων τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὰ στοιχεῖα τῆς τέχνης οὐ προσκυνῶ αὐτὰ ὡς θεούς, εἰδὼς τὸν ἐπ᾿ αὐτοῖς τῆς λύσεως λόγον, ὧν οἶδα ἀνθρώπους δημιουργοὺς πῶς ταῦτα προσείπω θεούς; Σκέψασθε δέ μοι διὰ βραχέων.

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Athenagoras, Legatio sive Supplicatio pro Christianis, ed. Francis Andrew March, William Baxter Owen. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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