# Praeperatio Evangelica 6.54

Eusebius, Praeperatio Evangelica, ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ ΕΚΤΟΝ, Chapter 6. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/eusebius-scr-eccl-et-theol/praeperatio-evangelica/6.54

καὶ τίς ἂν εἴη τούτου δυσσεβὴς ἄλλος, τὸν τῶν ὅλων θεὸν, αὐτὸν δὴ τὸν ποιητὴν καὶ δημιουργὸν τοῦδε τοῦ παντὸς, εἰσάγων ἐπάναγκες ἐκβιαζόμενον τόνδε μὲν οὐκ ἐθέλοντα ἀσεβεῖν τοῦτο πράττειν, καὶ ἄθεον εἶναι κατ’ ἀνάγκην, καὶ εἰς ἑαυτὸν βλάσφημον, τόνδε δὲ, ὃν αὐτὸς τὴν φύσιν ἄρρενα συνεστήσατο, πάσχειν παρὰ φύσιν τὰ θηλειῶν οὐ κατὰ προαίρεσιν, κατηναγκασμένον δὲ πρὸς αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἄλλον ἀνδροφόνον γίνεσθαι μὴ παρὰ τὴν οἰκείαν γνώμην, ὑπ’ ἀνάγκης δὲ ἐλαυνόμενον τοῦ θεοῦ, ὡς μηδ’ εὐλόγως ἐπιμέμφεσθαι τοῖς πλημμελοῦσιν, ἀλλ’ ἤτοι μηδὲ ἁμαρτήματα ταῦτ’ εἶναι ἡγεῖσθαι, ἢ τῶν κακῶν ἁπάντων ποιητὴν εἶναι τὸν θεὸν ἀποφαίνεσθαι;

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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/.