# De ecclesiastica theologia 3.3.63

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/eusebius-scr-eccl-et-theol/de-ecclesiastica-theologia/3.3.63

τὸ δὲ καὶ εὐφραίνεσθαι αὐτὸν ἐνώπιον τοῦ πατρὸς πῶς ἂν ἁρμόσειεν μὴ ὑφεστῶτι λόγῳ, ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ θεῷ ὄντι καὶ σημαντικῶς ἐνεργοῦντι, ἄντικρυς τοῦ εὐφραίνεσθαι καὶ τοῦ »ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ« τὴν ὑπόστασιν αὐτοῦ παριστώντων. ἀλλὰ τούτων Μάρκελλος οὐδένα λόγον ποιησάμενος ἀθετεῖ μὲν τὸν υἱόν, λόγον δέ φησιν ἔνδον ὄντα ἐν τῷ θεῷ ποτὲ μὲν ἐνεργείᾳ δραστικῇ προϊέναι, ποτὲ δὲ ἔνδον εἶναι ἐν αὐτῷ μὴ ἐνεργοῦντα· καὶ οὐχ ὁρᾷ ὅτι τὸ λέγειν | εἶναί τι ἐντὸς καὶ ἐκτὸς τοῦ θεοῦ σύνθετόν τι ὑποτίθεται καὶ σωματικὸν πάθος, ὅπερ οὐ θέμις ἐπὶ τῆς ἀγενήτου καὶ ἀσωμάτου φύσεως παραδέχεσθαι.

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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/.