# Historia ecclesiastica 2.19.11

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 2, Chapter 19. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/2.19.11

πῶς >γὰρ εἰρήνην οἷόν τε ἄγειν τοὺς τὴν εἰρήνην καταλύοντας; μᾶλλον Ψὰρ ἔρις καὶ ταραχὴ ἐκ τούτων σὺν ταῖς λοιπαῖς πόλεσι καὶ τῇ >Ῥωμαίων ἐκκλησίᾳ γενήσεται διὸ δὴ ἱκετεύομεν τὴν σὴν ἐπιείκειαν >ἵνα προσηνέσιν ἀκοαῖς καὶ γαληνῶ βλέμματι τοὺς ἡμετέρους πρέσβεις >ἀθρήσειας μήτε πρὸς ὕβριν τῶν τετελευτηκότων καινόν τι >μεταλλάττειν ἐπιτρέψειας, ἀλλ’ ἐάσῃς ἐμμένειν ἡμᾶς τοῖς παρὰ τῶν προ- >γόνων ὁρισθεῖσί τε καὶ νενομοθετημένοις, οὓς ἅπαντα μετὰ ἀγχινοίας >τε καὶ φρονήσεως καὶ πνεύματος ἁγίοι· πεποιηκέναι φήσαιμεν ἄν.

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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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