# Legatio sive Supplicatio pro Christianis 4.15

Athenagoras, Legatio sive Supplicatio pro Christianis, Chapter 4. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/athenagoras/legatio-sive-supplicatio-pro-christianis/4.15

Ἡμῖν δέ, διαιροῦσιν ἀπὸ τῆς ὕλης τὸν θεόν, καὶ δεικνύουσιν ἕτερον μέν τι εἶναι τὴν ὕλην ἄλλο δὲ τὸν θεὸν καὶ τὸ διὰ μέσου πολύ (τὸ μὲν γὰρ θεῖον ἀγένητον εἶναι καὶ ἀΐδιον, νῷ μόνῳ καὶ λόγῳ θεωρούμενον, τὴν δὲ ὕλην γενητὴν καὶ φθαρτήν), μή τι οὐκ ἀλόγως τὸ τῆς ἀθεότητος ἐπικαλοῦσιν ὄνομα;

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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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