# Historia ecclesiastica 4.26.1

Sozomenus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 4, Chapter 26. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/4.26.1

Ἀφαιρεθεὶς δὲ Μακεδόνιος τὴν Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ἐκκλησίαν, εἴς τι περὶ πύλας χωρίον διέτριβεν, ἔνθα καὶ ἐτελεύτησεν: Εὐδόξιος δὲ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν κατέσχεν. Ἡνίκα δὴ Κωνσταντίου τὸ δέκατον, καὶ Ἰουλιανοῦ τοῦ Καίσαρος τὸ τρίτον ὑπατευόντων, τὸ πρῶτον ἐκκλησιάζων ἐπὶ τῇ τελεσιουργίᾳ τῆς μεγάλης ἐκκλησίας, ἣν Σοφίαν ὀνομάζουσι, λέγεται ἐπὶ τὸ τοῦ ἱερέως ἀναβὰς βῆμα, οἷα δὴ τὸν λαὸν διδάσκων, ἀρχόμενος τοῦ λόγου εἰπεῖν: ὡς ὁ μὲν πατὴρ ἀσεβὴς, ὁ δὲ υἱὸς εὐσεβής. Θορυβήσαντος δὲ τοῦ πλήθους, Ἠρεμεῖτε, ἔφη: ὁ μὲν πατὴρ ἀσεβὴς, ὅτι οὐδένα σέβει: ὁ δὲ υἱὸς εὐσεβὴς, ὅτι πατέρα σέβει. Καὶ ὁ μὲν ὧδε εἰπὼν, εἰς γέλωτα τοὺς ἀκούοντας μετέβαλε.

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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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