# Praeperatio Evangelica 5.4-4

Eusebius, Praeperatio Evangelica, ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ ΤΕΤΑΡΤΟΝ, Chapter 5. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/eusebius-scr-eccl-et-theol/praeperatio-evangelica/5.4-4

τὰ μὲν γὰρ παρ’ ἡμῖν θεῖα λόγια οὐδ’ ὅλως ἀγαθὸν οὐδέν’ ὀνομάζει δαίμονα, πάντας δὲ πονηροὺς εἷναι τοὺς τῆς λήξεως ταύτης καὶ δὴ καὶ τῆς προσηγορίας μετειληφότας, ὡς οὐδ’ ἕτερον θεὸν ἀληθῶς καὶ κυρίως πλὴν ἴνα τὸν πάντων αἴτιον · τὰς δὲ ἀστείας καὶ ἀγαθὰς δυνάμεις, ἅτε τὴν φύσιν γεννητὰς οὔσας καὶ πολλῷ τὸν ἀγέν νῆτον καὶ σφῶν αὐτῶν ποιητὴν θεὸν ἀφυστερούσας, οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦ τῶν δαιμόνων μοχθηροῦ γένους ἀφωρισμένας, οὔτε θεοὺς οὔτε δαίμονας ἀποκαλεῖν ἀξιοῖ, μέσας δὲ οὔσας θεοῦ καὶ δαιμόνων εὐθυβόλῳ καὶ μέσῃ προσηγορίᾳ ἀγγέλους θεοῦ καὶ πνεύματα λειτουργικὰ, δυνάμεις τε θείας καὶ ἀρχαγγέλους, καί τισιν ἄλλαις ἐπωνυμίαις φερωνύμως τοῖς ἐπιτηδεύ- μασιν αὐτῶν ὀνομάζειν εἴωθε, τοὺς δὲ δαίμονας, εἰ δὴ καὶ τούτων ἡμᾶς προσήκει τὴν ἐτυμολογίαν ἐξει- πεῖν, οὐχ ᾗπερ Ἕλλησι δοκεῖ παρὰ τὸ δαήμονας εἷναι καὶ ἐπιστήμονας , ἀλλ’ ἢ παρὰ τὸ δειμαίνειν, ὅπερ ἐστὶ φοβεῖσθαι καὶ ἐκφοβεῖν, δαίμονάς τινας προσ- φυῶς ὀνομάζεσθαι.

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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/.