# De ecclesiastica theologia 3.16.3

Eusebius, De ecclesiastica theologia, Book 3, Chapter 16. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/eusebius-scr-eccl-et-theol/de-ecclesiastica-theologia/3.16.3

βασιλεύων δὴ τότε ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ τοὺς ὑπ’ αὐτῷ βασιλευομένους πάντας τῷ αὐτοῦ παραδώσει πατρί. οὐ παυσόμενος τῆς βασιλείας οὐδ’ ἀναχωρῶν αὐτῆς. οὐδὲ γὰρ παύσεσθαι αὐτὸν τῆς βασιλείας ὁ θεῖος ἀπόστολος ἔφη (ἦ γὰρ ἂν τἀναντία ἔγραφεν τῷ Γαβριὴλ θεσπίσαντι πρὸς τὴν παρθένον βασιλεύσειν αὐτὸν εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας καὶ τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοὺ« μὴ ἔσεσθαι »τέλος«), ἀλλὰ παραδώσειν »τὴν βασιλείαν«, δηλαδὴ τοὺς ὑπ’ αὐτῷ βασιλευομένους, »τῷ θεῷ καὶ πατρί«.

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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/.