# Historia Ecclesiastica 17.20

Gelasius, Historia Ecclesiastica, ΛΟΓΟΣ Bݲ, Chapter 17. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/gelasius/historia-ecclesiastica/17.20

καὶ εἰ ὁ κόσμος διὰ τὸν ἄνθρωπον πάντως ὡς προγενεστέρου τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐν τῇ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐνθυμήσει ὄντος, ὁ δὲ κόσμος μεταγενέστερος ἦν τοῦ ἀνθώπσυ καὶ τῆς λογιστικῆς σοφίας ἐν τῇ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐνθυμήσει, ὁ ἄνθρωπος οὖν προγενέστερός ἐστι τοῦ κόσμου καὶ ἡ σοφία· ὁ οὖν προγενέστερος ὢν τοῦ κόσμου προϋπάρχει καὶ τῶν τοῦ κόσμου φύσεων, οἷον οὐρανοῦ καὶ τῆς ἡμέρας νυκτὸς νεφῶν ἀνέμων ἀβύσσων πηγῶν ὀρέων βουνῶν.

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Gelasius, Historia Ecclesiastica, ed. Gerhard Loeschke, Margret Heinemann. 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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