# Historia ecclesiastica 1.8.7

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/1.8.7

»Τῶν γὰρ συνελθόντων ἐπισκόπων βουλομένων τὰς μὲν παρὰ >τῶν Ἀρεικῶν ἐφευρεθείσας τῆς ἀσεβείας λέξεις ἀνελεῖν, τὸ ἐξ οὐκ >ὄντων καὶ τὸ λέγειν κτίσμα καὶ ποίημα τὸν υἱὸν καὶ τὸ ἢν ποτε >ὅτε οὐκ ἢν καὶ ὅτι τρεπτῆς ἐστι φύσεως, τὰς δὲ τῶν γραφῶν ὁμολογουμένας >γράψαι, ὅτι τε ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ ὁ υἱὸς φύσει μονογενής ἐστι, >λόγος, δύναμις, σοφία μόνη τοῦ πατρός, »θεὸς ἀληθινός«, ὡς >εἶπεν ὁ Ἰωάννης, καὶ ὡς ἔγραψεν ὁ Παῦλος »ἀληθινός«, τῆς >δόξης καὶ χαρακτὴρ τῆς τοῦ πατρὸς ὑποστάσεως«, οἱ περὶ >Εὐσέβιον ὑπὸ τῆς ἰδίας κακοδοξίας ἑλκόμενοι διελάλουν ἀλλήλοις·

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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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