# Praeperatio Evangelica 9.27-2

Eusebius, Praeperatio Evangelica, ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ ΕΚΤΟΝ, Chapter 9. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/eusebius-scr-eccl-et-theol/praeperatio-evangelica/9.27-2

“Ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ βουλεύεσθαι τὸν ἄνθρωπον οὐκ εἰς μάτην αὐτῷ ὑπάρχει· ἦν δ᾿ ἂν εἰς μάτην βουλευτικὸς, εἰ ἐξ ἀνάγκης ἔπραττε τὰ πραττόμενα ἀλλ᾿ ἐναργῶς φαίνεται τῶν ἄλλων ζῴων ὁ ἄνθρωπος μόνος τοῦτο παρὰ τῆς φύσεως ἔχων πλέον, τὸ μὴ ὁμοίως ἐκείνοις ταῖς φαντασίαις ἕπεσθαι, ἀλλ᾿ ἔχειν τῶν προσπιπτόντων κριτὴν τὸν λόγον· ᾧ χρώμενος, εἰ μὲν ἐξεταζόμενα τὰ φαντασθέντα οἷα τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐφάνη καὶ ἔστι, συγκατατίθεται τῇ φαντασίᾳ, καὶ οὕτω μέτεισιν αὐτά· εἰ δὲ ἀλλοῖα φαίνεται, οὐκέτι ἔμεινεν ἐπὶ τῆς προλήψεως, ἐλέγξαντος αὐτὰ τοῦ λόγου, διὰ τὸ συμβουλεύσασθαι περὶ αὐτῶν.”

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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/.