# Historia ecclesiastica 4.14.6

Sozomenus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 4, Chapter 14. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/4.14.6

Οἱ δὲ, καὶ τί γὰρ οὐκ ἐπεισάγουσι τῷ κακῷ, τοὺς πονηροτάτους ὥσπερ ἐξ ἐντολῆς ἀγείροντες, τούτους δὴ τοὺς τῶν αἱρέσεων ἀρχηγοὺς εἰς τὸν κλῆρον καταλέγουσι, σχῆμα σεμνὸν οὕτω κιβδηλεύοντας, ὥσπερ ἐξὸν αὐτοὺς ἄγειν καὶ φέρειν ἅπαντα. Καίτοι τίς ἂν εἰς ζῶντας τελῶν, τούτων ἀνάσχοιτο, οἳ τὰς μὲν πόλεις τοῦ δυσσεβεῖν ἐμπιπλῶσι, τὴν δὲ ὑπερορίαν μιάσμασιν ἀποκρύπτουσιν: ἓν τοῦτο μόνον ἔργον ἀγαπῶντες, τὸ τοῖς καλοῖς ἀπεχθάνεσθαι διηνεκῶς. Ἐρρέτω πανοῦργόν τι σύστημα θειοτέροις θώκοις ἐνιδρύσαι.

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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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