# Historia ecclesiastica 3.20.8

Sozomenus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 3, Chapter 20. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/3.20.8

ἔπειτα δὲ, ὡς εἰκὸς, νεωτέρων αὐτοὺς πειραθήσεσθαι πραγμάτων, ἐξὸν ἀκινδύνως ἔχειν οὓς ἔχουσιν: ἐπεὶ καὶ κρατούντων αὐτῶν τῶν τῇδε ἐκκλησιῶν, οὐ παντελῶς οἷς ἐδόξαζον ὁ πᾶς κλῆρος καὶ ὁ λαὸς ἐπείθοντο: ἀλλὰ κατὰ χοροὺς, ὡς ἔθος ἐν τῷ ὑμνεῖν τὸν Θεὸν, συνιστάμενοι, πρὸς τῷ τέλει τῶν ᾠδῶν τὴν οἰκείαν προαίρεσιν ἐπεδείκνυον. Καὶ οἱ μὲν, Πατέρα καὶ Υἱὸν ὡς ὁμότιμον ἐδόξαζον: οἱ δὲ, Πατέρα ἐν Υἱῷ, τῇ παρενθέσει τῆς προθέσεως, δευτερεύειν τὸν Υἱὸν ἀποφαίνοντες.

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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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