# Historia ecclesiastica 1.8.14

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/1.8.14

Καὶ ὁ γογγυσμὸς δὲ αὐτῶν, ὅτι ἄγραφοί εἰσιν αἱ λέξεις, ἐλέγχεται παῤ αὐτῶν μάταιος· ἐξ ἀγράφων γὰρ ἀσεβήσαντες ἄγραφα δὲ τὸ >ἐξ οὐκ ὄντων καὶ τὸ ἢν ποτε ὅτε οὐκ ἢν), αἰτιῶνται διότι ἐξ >ἀγράφων μετ’ εὐσεβείας νοουμένων λέξεων κατεκρίθησαν. αὐτοὶ μὲν >γὰρ ὡς ἐκ κοπρίας εὑρόντες ἐλάλησαν ἀληθῶς ἀπὸ γῆς, οἱ δὲ ἐπί- σκοποι, οὐχ ἑαυτοῖς εὑρόντες τὰς λέξεις ἀλλ’ ἐκ τῶν πατέρων ἔχον- >τες τὴν μαρτυρίαν, οὕτως ἔγραψαν.

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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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