# Historia Ecclesiastica 7.11-12

Gelasius, Historia Ecclesiastica, 7.11 to 7.12. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/gelasius/historia-ecclesiastica/7.11

ὁπότε εἴ τις μόνην τὴν μεγαλοπρέπειαν τοῦ αὐτὸν τετέχθαι >νομοθετήσαντος λογίσαιτο, εἰδὼς ἂν σκοπήσειε μηδὲν δύνασθαι >θῆναι, ὅπερ ἄξιον θεοῦ λεχθῆναι δυνήσεται. τί τοίνυν τῆς ἐμῆς >μετριότητος τὴν καθοσίωσιν λέγειν ἐχρῆν, εἰ μὴ τοῦτο, ὅπερ ὁ >λόγος τῆς ἀληθείας δείκνυσιν; οὗ τὸ μέγεθος ἥτις μεγίστη προσ- >κύνησις σκοπησάτω σαφῶς, εἰ καταντῆσαι δυνήσεται ἐν αὐτοῖς >περὶ αὐτοῦ λεγομένοις καὶ οὐδεμία πλάνη αὐτὸν ὁλισθήσει.

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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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