# Historia ecclesiastica 5.15.14

Sozomenus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 5, Chapter 15. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/sozomenus/historia-ecclesiastica/5.15.14

Ταύτης δὲ τῆς φυγῆς μετέσχον πολλοὶ τῶν ἐμῶν προγόνων, καὶ ὁ ἐμὸς πάππος. Καθότι πατρὸς Ἕλληνος ὢν, αὐτός τε πανοικὶ καὶ οἱ ἀπὸ τοῦ γένους Ἀλαφίωνος, Χριστιανοὶ πρῶτοι ἐγένοντο ἐν Βηθελίᾳ κώμῃ Γαζαίᾳ, πολυανθρώπῳ τε οὔσῃ, καὶ ἱερὰ ἐχούσῃ ἀρχαιότητι καὶ κατασκευῇ σεμνὰ τοῖς κατοικοῦσι: καὶ μάλιστα τὸ πάνθεον, ὡς ἐπὶ ἀκροπόλεως πόλεως χειροποιήτου τινὸς λόφου κείμενον, καὶ πανταχόθεν πάσης τῆς κώμης ὑπερέχον. Συμβάλλω δὲ τὸ χωρίον ἔνθεν λαχεῖν τὴν προσηγορίαν, καὶ ἐκ τῆς Σύρων φωνῆς εἰς τὴν Ἑλλήνων ἑρμηνευόμενον θεῶν οἰκητήριον ὀνομάζεσθαι,

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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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