# Historia ecclesiastica 1.4.16-17

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, 1.4.16 to 1.4.17. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/1.4.16

>ἀλλὰ γὰρ καὶ ὅτι τοῖς ἐξ οὐκ ὄντων γενομένοις ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ >οὐ συναριθμεῖται, πάντα ὄι αὐτοῦ γεγονέναι φησὶν ὁ αὐτὸς Ἰωάννης. τὴν γὰρ ἰδιότροπον αὐτοῦ ὑπόστασιν ἐδήλωσεν εἰπών· ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος καὶ ὁ λόγος ἢν πρὸς τὸν θεὸν καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ >λόγος. πάντα δι’ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο, καὶ χωρὶς αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο >οὐδὲ ἕν«. εἰ γὰρ πάντα δι’ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο, πῶς ὁ τοῖς γενομένοις >τὸ εἶναι χαρισάμενος αὐτός ποτε οὐκ ἦν; οὐ γάρ πὼς ὁ λόγος τὸ >ποιοῦν, τοῖς γενομένοις τῆς αὐτῆς εἶναι φύσεως διορίζεται· εἴ γε >αὐτὸς μὲν ἢν ἐν ἀρχῇ πάντα δὲ δι’ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο καὶ ἐξ οὐκ ὄντων >ἐποίηοεν.

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Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, ed. Léon Parmentier. 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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