# De ecclesiastica theologia 1.20.10

Eusebius, De ecclesiastica theologia, Book 1, Chapter 20. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/eusebius-scr-eccl-et-theol/de-ecclesiastica-theologia/1.20.10

δ′. ἤδη δὲ καὶ τετάρτην προστίθησιν ὁ αὐτός, μονογενῆ τὸν αὐτὸν ἀποκαλῶν ἐν οἷς φησιν »καὶ ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο καὶ ἐσκήνωσεν ἐν ἡμῖν, καὶ ἐθεασάμεθα τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, δόξαν ὡς μονογενοῦς παρὰ πατρός, πλήρης χάριτος καὶ ἀληθείας«. οὐκοῦν καὶ [ὁ] μονογενὴς τοῦ θεοῦ πρὶν τὴν σάρκα ἀναλαβεῖν ἐχρημάτιζεν. εἰ γὰρ καὶ τὰ μάλιστα, φησίν, δι’ ἡμᾶς »ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο«, ἀλλ’ ὅμως ἡμεῖς. οἷς | κατηξίωσεν ἐνδείξασθαι τὴν ἑαυτοῦ θεότητα. οὐκ εἰς τὴν σάρκα ἀφορῶντες. (αὕτη γὰρ »μορφὴ δούλου« ἦν) ἀλλ’ εἰς τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ τὴν ἐκτὸς τοῦ σώματος νῷ καθαρῷ θεωρουμένην, »ἐθεασάμεθα τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ«, δόξαν ἄρρητον καὶ πάντα θνητῶν λογισμὸν ὑπερβαίνουσαν, ὁποίαν ‹ἄν› τις ἐννοήσειεν »δόξαν« υἱοῦ θεοῦ »μονογενοῦς«.

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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/.