# Historia Ecclesiastica 16.3

Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica, ΛΟΓΟΣ Ε., Chapter 16. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/eusebius-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/16.3

“ἐκ πλείστου ὅσου “καὶ ἱκανωτάτου χρόνου, ἀγαπητὲ Ἀουίρκιε Μάρ- “κελλε, ἐπιταχθεὶς ὑπὸ σοῦ συγγράψαι τινὰ λόγον “εἰς τὴν τῶν κατὰ Μιλτιάδην λεγομένων αἵρεσιν, “ἐφεκτικώτερόν πως μέχρι νῦν διεκείμην, οὐκ ἀπο- “ρίᾳ τοῦ δύνασθαι ἐλέγχειν μὲν τὸ ψεῦδος, μαρτυ- “ρεῖν δὲ τῇ ἀληθείᾳ, δεδιὼς δὲ καὶ ἐξευλαβούμενος “μή πη δόξω τισὶν ἐπισυγγράφειν ἢ ἐπιδιατάσσεσθαι “τῷ τῆς τοῦ εὐαγγελίου καινῆς διαθήκης λόγῳ, ᾧ “μήτε προσθεῖναι μήτ᾿ ἀφελεῖν δυνατὸν τῷ κατὰ τὸ “εὐαγγέλιον αὐτὸ πολιτεύεσθαι προῃρημένῳ.

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Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica, 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.
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