# Historia ecclesiastica 1.4.23

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/1.4.23

>εἰ τοίνυν ἀληθὲς τὸ πάντα δι’ αὐτοῦ γεγονέναι, δῆλον ὅτι καὶ πᾶς >αἰὼν Λαὶ χρόνος καὶ διαστήματα καὶ τὸ ποτέ, ἐν οἶς τὸ οὐκ ἢν εὑρίσκεται, δι’ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο. καὶ πῶς οὐκ ἀπίθανον τὸν καὶ χρό- >νους καὶ αἰῶνας καὶ καιρούς, ἐν οἶς τὸ οὐκ ἢν συμπέφυρται, ποιή- >σαντα, αὐτόν ποτε μὴ εἶναι λέγειν; ἀδιανόητον γὰρ καὶ πάσης ἀμα- θίας ἀνάπλεων τὸν αἴτιον γενόμενόν τινος αὐτὸν μεταγενέστερον >λέγειν τῆς ἐκείνου γενέσεως.

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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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