# Historia ecclesiastica 1.4.19

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 1, Chapter 4. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/1.4.19

μακρὸν γοῦν θεωρήσας τοῦ θεοῦ λόγου τὸ ἡν καἰ ὑπεραῖ- >ρον τῆς τῶν γενητῶν διανοίας ὁ εὐλαβέστατος Ἰωάννης γέρεσιν >αὐτοῦ καὶ ποίησιν ἀπηξίωσεν εἰπεῖν, οὐδὲ ταῖς ὁμοστοίχοις συλλαβαῖς >τὸ ποιοῦν τοῖς γιγνομένοις ὀνομάσαι τολμήσας, οὐχ ὅτι ἀγέννητος >ἦν (ἓν γὰρ ἀγέννητον ὁ πατήρ), ἀλλ’ ὅτι τῆς ἐξεσμένης τῶν >γελιστῶν, τάχα δὲ καὶ ἀγγέλων καταλήψεως ὑπερέκεινά ἐστιν ἡ τοῦ >μονογενοῦς θεοῦ ἀνεκδιήγητος ὑπόσταοις. εἰς εὐσεβεῖς οὐκ οἴμαι >λογιξομένους τοὺς μέχρι τούτων ἐπερωτᾶν τι τολμῶντας. διὰ τὸ ἀνήκοον τοῦ »χαλεπώτερά σου μὴ ζήτει, καὶ ὑψηλότερά σου >μὴ ἐξέταζε«.

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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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