# Historia ecclesiastica 1.6.7

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 1, Chapter 6. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/1.6.7

>φύσει. καὶ γὰρ καὶ ἐπ’ ἀνθρώπων φησίν· υἱοὺς ἐγέννησα καὶ >ὕψωσα, αὐτοὶ δέ με ἠθέτησαν«, καὶ θεὸν τὸν γεννήσαντά σε ἐγκατέλιπες‘, καὶ ἐν ἑτέροις· »τίς«, φησί, »ὁ τετοκὼς βω- >λους δρόσου;« οὐ τὴν φύσιν ἐκ τῆς φύσεως διηγούμενος, ἀλλὰ >τὴν ἐφ’ ἑκάστῳ τῶν γενομένων ἐκ τοῦ βουλήματος αὐτοῦ γένεσιν. >οὐδὲν γάρ ἐστιν ἐκ τῆς οὐσίας αὐτοῦ, πάντα δὲ βουλήματι αὐτοῦ >γενόμενα ἕκαστον, ὡς καὶ ἐγένετο, ἐστίν.

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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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