# Historia ecclesiastica 1.4.48

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/1.4.48

πάντων γὰρ εἶναι τὴν εἰκόνα πλήρη δι’ ὢν ἡ >μείζων ἐμφέρεια, δῆλον ὡς αὐτὸς ἐπαίδευσεν ὁ κύριος ὁ πατήρ >μου« λέγων »μείζων μού ἐστὶ. καὶ κατὰ τοῦτο καὶ τὸ ἀεὶ εἶναι >τὸν υἱὸν ἐκ τοῦ πατρὸς πιστεύομεν· ἀπαύγασμα γάρ ἐστι τῆς >δόξης καὶ χαρακτὴρ τῆς πατρικῆς ὑποστάσεως. ἀλλὰ μή τις >τὸ ἀεὶ πρὸς ὑπόνοιαν ἀγεννήτου λαμβανέτω, ὡς οἴονται οἱ τὰ τῆς >ψυχῆς αἰοθητήρια πεπωρωμένοι·

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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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