# Legatio sive Supplicatio pro Christianis 32.159

Athenagoras, Legatio sive Supplicatio pro Christianis, Chapter 32. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/athenagoras/legatio-sive-supplicatio-pro-christianis/32.159

Ἡμεῖς δὲ τοσοῦτον ἀδιάφοροι εἶναι ἀπέχομεν, ὡς μηδὲ ἰδεῖν ἡμῖν πρὸς ἐπιθυμίαν ἐξεῖναι. Ὁ γὰρ βλέπων, φησί, γυναῖκα πρὸς τὸ ἐπιθυμῆσαι αὐτῇς, ἤδη μεμοίχευκεν ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ. Οἷς οὖν μηδὲν τὸ πλέον ἔξεστιν ὁρᾶν ἢ ἐφ᾿ ἃ ἔπλασεν τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ὁ θεός, ἡμῖν φῶς αὐτοὺς εἶναι, καὶ οἷς τὸ ἰδεῖν ἡδέως μοιχεία, ἐφ᾿ ἕτερα τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν γεγονότων, μέχρις ἐννοίας κριθησομένοις, πῶς ἂν οὗτοι ἀπιστηθεῖεν σωφρονεῖν; Οὐ γὰρ πρὸς ἀνθρωπικοὺς νόμους ὁ λόγος ἡμῖν, οὓς ἄν τις γενόμενος πονηρὸς καὶ λάθοι (ἐν ἀρχῇ δὲ ὑμῖν, δεσπόται, θεοδίδακτον εἶναι τὸν καθ᾿ ἡμᾶς λόγον ἐπιστούμην), ἀλλ᾿ ἔστιν ἡμῖν νόμος ὃς δικαιοσύνης μέτρον ἐποίησεν αὐτοὺς καὶ τοὺς πέλας ἔχειν.

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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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