# Historia ecclesiastica 1.4.52

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/1.4.52

οὐκοῦν τῷ μὲν ἀγεννήτῳ >πατρὶ οἰκεῖον ἀξ)ίωμα φυλακτέον, μηδένα τοῦ εἶναι αὐτῷ τὸν αἴτιον >λέγοντας· τῷ δὲ υἱῷ τὴν ἁρμόζουσαν τιμὴν ἀπονεμητέον, τὴν ἄναρχον αὐτώ παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς γέννησιν ἀνατιθέντας· καὶ ὡς >ἐφθάσαμεν αὐτῷ σέβας ἀπονέμοντες, μόνον εὐσεβῶς καὶ εὐφήμως >τὸ ἢν καὶ τὸ ἀεὶ καὶ τὸ πρὸ αἰώνων λέγοντες ἐπ’ αὐτοῦ, τὴν μέντοι >θεότητα αὐτοῦ μὴ παραιτούμενοι, ἀλλὰ τῇ εἰκόνι καὶ τῷ χαρακτῆρι >τοῦ πατρὸς ἀπηκριβωμένην ἐμφέρειαν κατὰ πάντα ἀνατιθέντες, τὸ >δὲ ἀγέννητον τῷ πατρὶ μόνον ἰδίωμα παρεἷναι δοξάζοντες, ἅτε δὴ >καὶ αὐτοῦ φάσκοντος τοῦ σωτῆρος· ὁ πατήρ μου μείζων μού ἐστι«.

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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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