# Historia ecclesiastica 2.19.3

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/2.19.3

ἄτοπον γὰρ καὶ ἀθέμιτον ἐφάνη τῶν ὀρθῶς καὶ δικαίω >ὡρισμένων τι μεταλλάξαι καὶ τῶν ἐν Νικαίᾳ κοινῇ μετὰ τοῦ >Κωνσταντίνου τοῦ σοῦ πατρὸς καὶ βασιλέως ἐσκεμμένων· ὣν ἡ >σκαλία καὶ τὸ φρόνημα διῆλθέ τε καὶ ἐκηρύχθη εἰς πάσας >ἀκοάς τε καὶ διανοίας, ἥτις ἀντίπαλος μόνη καὶ ὀλετὴρ τῆς αἱρέσεως ὑπῆρξε, δι’ ἧς οὐ μόνον αὕτη, ἀλλὰ καὶ αἱ λοιπαὶ αἱρέσεις >καθῃρέθησαν, ἐν ᾖ ὄντως καὶ τὸ προσθεῖναί τι σφαλερὸν καὶ >ἀφελέσθαι ἐπικίνδυνον ὑπάρχει, ὡς εἴπερ θάτερον γένοιτο, ἔσται >ἐχθροῖς ἄδεια τοῦ ποιεῖν ἅπερ βούλονται.

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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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