# Historia ecclesiastica 1.8.10

Sozomenus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 1, Chapter 8. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/1.8.10

Ἐκ δὲ τῆς οὔσης ὑποφόρου γῆς, καθ̓ ἑκάστην πόλιν ἐξελὼν τοῦ δημοσίου ῥητὸν τέλος, ταῖς κατὰ τόπον ἐκκλησίαις καὶ κλήροις ἀπένειμε, καὶ τὴν δωρεὰν εἰς τὸν ἅπαντα χρόνον κυρίαν εἶναι ἐνομοθέτησε. Προσεθίζων δὲ τοὺς στρατιώτας ὁμοίως αὐτῷ τὸν Θεὸν σέβειν, τὰ τούτων ὅπλα τῷ συμβόλῳ τοῦ σταυροῦ κατεσήμαινε, καὶ ἐν τοῖς βασιλείοις εὐκτήριον οἶκον κατεσκεύασε, καὶ σκηνὴν εἰς ἐκκλησίαν εἰκασμένην περιέφερεν, ἡνίκα πολεμίοις ἐπεστράτευεν: ὥστε μηδὲ ἐν ἐρημίᾳ διάγοντα αὐτὸν, ἢ τὴν στρατίαν, ἱεροῦ οἴκου ἀμοιρεῖν, ἐν ᾧ δέοι τὸν Θεὸν ὑμνεῖν καὶ προσεύχεσθαι καὶ μυστηρίων μετέχειν.

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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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