# De ecclesiastica theologia 1.16.4

Eusebius, De ecclesiastica theologia, Book 1, Chapter 16. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/eusebius-scr-eccl-et-theol/de-ecclesiastica-theologia/1.16.4

ὥσπερ δὲ ἐπανορθούμενος αὐτὰς | ἀντὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ λόγον αὖθις ὀνομάζει, ὧδε λέγων (Nr. 38) »οὐδεὶς« γὰρ »οἶδεν« φησὶν »τὸν πατέρα εἰ μὴ ὁ υἱός«, τουτέστιν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ἐπιφέρει (Nr. 38) ὁ γὰρ λόγος δι’ ἑαυτοῦ τὴν τοῦ πατρὸς παρέχει γνῶσιν, καὶ προστίθησιν (Nr. 38) ἀδύνατον ἦν ἑτέρως γνῶναι τὸν θεὸν ἢ διὰ τοῦ ἰδίου λόγου καὶ αὖθις λόγον ἀντὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ τίθησιν καὶ τὸν ἴδιον αὐτοῦ λόγον ἀποκαλεῖ· καὶ ἐν οὕτω βραχυτάτοις ῥήμασιν πολλάκις μὲν ἐμνημόνευσεν λόγου, υἱοῦ δὲ οὐδ’ ἅπαξ. ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὴν τοῦ σωτῆρος μεταποιεῖ τὴν ῥῆσιν,

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Eusebius of Caesarea, De ecclesiastica theologia, ed. Erich Klostermann. 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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg2018.tlg009.local002/.