# Historia ecclesiastica 1.18.3

Sozomenus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 1, Chapter 18. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/1.18.3

Ὅμως δ̓ οὖν συγχωρησάντων λέγειν ἃ βούλεται, ἀντιτείνειν γὰρ αὐτῷ τοιούτῳ ὄντι ἐπὶ πολὺ ᾐδοῦντο, Ἐν ὀνόματι Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἔφη, φιλόσοφε ἄκουσον. Εἷς ἐστὶ Θεὸς, οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς καὶ πάντων τῶν ὁρωμένων καὶ ἀοράτων δημιουργὸς, ὁ πάντα ταῦτα τῇ δυνάμει τοῦ λόγου ποιήσας, καὶ τῇ ἁγιωσύνῃ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος αὐτοῦ στηρίξας. Οὗτος οὖν ὁ λόγος, φησὶν, ὂν ἡμεῖς υἱὸν Θεοῦ προσαγορεύομεν, ἐλεήσας τοὺς ἀνθρώπους τῆς πλάνης καὶ τῆς θηριώδους πολιτείας, εἵλετο ἐκ γυναικὸς τεχθῆναι, καὶ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις συνομιλῆσαι, καὶ ἀποθανεῖν ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν: ἥξει δὲ πάλιν κριτὴς τῶν ἑκάστῳ βεβιωμένων. Ταῦτα οὕτως ἔχειν ἀπεριέργως πιστεύομεν. Μὴ τοίνυν μάτην πόνει, τῶν πίστει κατορθουμένων ἐλέγχους ἐπιζητῶν, καὶ τρόπον ᾧ γενέσθαι ταῦτα ἢ μὴ γενέσθαι ἐνεδέχετο. Ἀλλ̓ εἰ πιστεύεις, ἐρομένῳ

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Sozomenus, Salaminius Hermias, Historia ecclesiastica, ed. Robert Hussey. 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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