# Historia ecclesiastica 1.8.10

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 1, Chapter 8. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/1.8.10

τοῦτο γὰρ >ἴδιον μονογενοῦς καὶ ἀληθινοῦ λόγου τοῦ πατρός. καὶ περὶ μὲν τοῦ γεγράφθαι ἐκ τῆς οὐσίας ἡ πρόφασις αὕτη. >Πáλιν δὲ τῶν ἐπισκόπων ἐρωτώντων τοὺς δοκοῦντας ὀλίγους εἰ >λέγοιεν τὸν υἱὸν οὐ κτίσμα, ἀλλὰ δύναμιν σοφίαν τε μόνην τοῦ >πατρὸς καὶ εἰκόνα ἀίδιόν τε καὶ ἀπαράλλακτον κατὰ πάντα τοῦ >πατροὸς καὶ θεὸν ἀληθινόν, κατελήφθησαν οἱ περὶ Εὐσέβιον δια- >νεύοντες ἀλλήλοις ὅτι· καὶ ταῦτα φθάνει καὶ εἰς ἡμᾶς· καὶ γὰρ καὶ >ἡμεῖς »εἰκὼν καὶ δόξα θεοῦ« λεγόμεθα. καὶ περὶ ἡμῶν εἴρηται >»ἀεὶ γὰρ ἡμεῖς οἱ ζῶντες«·

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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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