# Historia ecclesiastica 1.4.34

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/1.4.34

τί δὲ καὶ τὸ »ἐκ γαστρὸς >πρὸ ἑωσφόρου ἐγέννησά σε«; οὐχὶ ἄντικρυς τῆς πατρικῆς μαιώ- >σεως φυσικὴν ἐνδείκνυται υἱότητα, οὐ τρόπων ἐπιμελείᾳ καὶ προ- >κοπῆς ἀσκήσει, ἀλλὰ φύσεως ἰδιώματι ταύτην λαχόντος; ὅθεν καὶ >ἀμετάπτωτον ἔχει τὴν υἱότητα ὁ μονογενὴς υἱὸς τοῦ πατρός. τὴν >δὲ τῶν λογικῶν υἱοθεσίαν, οὐ κατὰ φύσιν αὐτοῖς ὑπάρχουσαν ἀλλὰ >τρόπων ἐπιτηδειότητι καὶ δωρεᾷ θεοῦ, καὶ μεταπτώτην οἶδεν ὁ λόγος· »ἰδόντες γὰρ οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ θεοῦ τὰς θυγατέρας τῶν ἀνθρώ- >πων ἔλαβον ἑαυτοῖς γυναῖκας« καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς·

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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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