# Historia ecclesiastica 2.31.12

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 2, Chapter 31. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/2.31.12

ἐπειδὴ δὲ εἶδον τὴν ἀσέβειαν παρ’ αὐτοῖς αὐξανομένην καὶ τοὺς μὲν τῶν ἀποστολικῶν ἀντεχομένους δογμάτων καὶ προφανῶς πολεμουμένους καὶ κρύβδην ἐπιβουλευομένους, καὶ τὸν μὲν θεῖον ἐξελαθέντα Μελέτιον, Εὐζώϊον δὲ τὸν τῆς αἱρέσεως προστάτην ἀντ’ ἐκείνου τὴν προεδρίαν δεξάμενον, τῶν πρὸς τὸν Λὼτἀνεμνήσθησαν εἰρημένων »σώζων σῶξε τὴν σεαυτοῦ ψυχην«, πρὸς δὲ δὴ τούτοις καὶ τῶν εὐαγγελικῶν νόμων οἳ σαφῶς διαγορεύουσιν »εἰ ὁ ὀφθαλμός σου ὁ δεξιὸς σκανδαλίζει σε, ἔκκοψον αὐτὸν καὶ βάλε ἀπὸ σοῦ‘.

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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.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Source: https://thegreeklibrary.pages.lisn.upsaclay.fr/works/tlg4089.tlg003.local003/.