# Demonstratio Evangelica 10.7

Eusebius, Demonstratio Evangelica, ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ ΠΡΩΤΟΝ., Chapter 10. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/eusebius-scr-eccl-et-theol/demonstratio-evangelica/10.7

ἔπειτα μηδὲν κρεῖττον καὶ τιμιώτερον τῆς οἰκείας ψυχῆς καθιεροῦν ἔχοντες ἀντὶ ταύτης τέως τὴν διὰ τῶν ἀλόγων ζῴων προσῆγον θυσίαν, τῆς σφῶν ψυχῆς ἀντίψυχα προσκομίζοντες· οὐδὲν κατὰ τοῦτο πλημμελεῖν οὐδ’ ἀδικεῖν ἡγούμενοι, ὅτι μηδὲ τῇ τῶν ἀνθρώτων λογικῇ καὶ νοερᾷ δυνάμει παραπλησίαν εἶναι τὴν ψυχὴν τῶν ἀλόγων ἐπαιδεύοντο, οὐδ’ ἄλλο τι αὐτὴν ἢ τὸ αἷμα αὐτῶν εἶναι μεμαθηκότες, καὶ τὴν ἐν τῷ αἵματι ζωτικὴν δύναμιν, ὃ καὶ παρέχειν αὐτοὺς, ὥσπερ ψυχὴν ἀντὶ ψυχῆς ἀναφέροντας τῷ θεῷ.

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Eusebius, Demonstratio Evangelica, ed. Wilhelm Dindorf. 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.tlg005.local001/.