# Praeperatio Evangelica 17.10

Eusebius, Praeperatio Evangelica, ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ ΤΕΤΑΡΤΟΝ, Chapter 17. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/eusebius-scr-eccl-et-theol/praeperatio-evangelica/17.10

ὅτε δὲ τοῦτο μὴ ἔπραττον, συνήργουν δ᾿ ἔμπαλιν τοῖς πονηροῖς αὐτοὶ, διὰ τῶν χρησμῶν τὰς προδηλωθείσας ἀνιέντες ἀνθρωποθυ- σίας, χαίροντές τε αἰσχρορρημοσύναις ἀπάσαις καὶ ταῖς τούτων ἀκολούθοις πράξεσιν, ἔργῳ, φασὶ, δῆλον ὡς οὐδέν τι καὶ αὐτοὶ φαύλων δαιμόνων τὴν φύσιν διήλλαττον, μᾶλλον δὲ μιᾶς καὶ τῆς αὐτῆς ὑπῆρχον προαιρέσεως καὶ γνώμης· καὶ ἔτι μᾶλλον εἰπεῖν ὡς οὐδὲ ὅλως θεός τις ἢν, οὐδέ τις ἀγαθὸς δαίμων, ὁ πάλαι πρὸς τῶν ἐθνῶν ἁπάντων κατὰ πό- λεις τε καὶ χώρας προσκυνούμενος.

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Eusebius, Praeperatio 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.tlg001.local001/.