# Ὁμίλαι 3.8

Clemens Romanus, Ὁμίλαι, Chapter 3. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/clemens-romanus/text-4/3.8

Αὐτάρκης οὖν εἰς σωτηρίαν ἡ εἰς Θεὸν ἀνθρώπων στοργή. ὁ εἰδὼς ὁ πονηρός, ἡμῶν σπευδόντων τοῖς ἀπὸ ἐθνῶν πιστεύειν μέλλουσιν ἑνὸς καὶ μόνου Θεοῦ ἐν ψυχαῖς σπείρειν τὴν ἀθανατοποιὸν πρὸς αὐτὸν στοργήν, αὐτὸς ὁ πονηρὸς κατὰ τῶν ἀγνοούντων ἱκανὸν ὅπλον ἔχων πρὸς ὄλεθρον σπουδάζει πολλῶν θεῶν ἢ καὶ ἑνὸς ὡς κρείττονος σπεῖραι τὴν ὑπόληψιν, ἵνα συλλαβόντες καὶ συμπεισθέντες ἁ μὴ θέμις, ἀποθανόντες ὡς ἐπὶ μοιχείας ἐγκλήματι, τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας ἀποβληθῶσιν.

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Clemens Romanus, Ὁμίλαι, ed. Albert Schwegler. 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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