# Historia ecclesiastica 2.8.39-40

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, 2.8.39 to 2.8.40. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/2.8.39

>Ἡμεῖς δὲ ταύτην παρειλήφαμεν καὶ δεδιδάγμεθα, ταύτην ἔχομεν >τὴν καθολικὴν καὶ ἀποστολικὴν παράδοσιν καὶ πίστιν καὶ >ὁμολογίαν· μίαν εἶναι ὑπόστασιν, ἣν αὐτοὶ οἱ αἱρετικοὶ οὐσίαν >προσαγορεύουσι, τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος. καὶ >εἰ ζητοῖεν, τίς τοῦ υἱοῦ ἡ ὑπόστασίς ἐστιν, ὁμολογοῦμεν ὡς αὕτη [ἦν] >ἡ μόνη τοῦ πατρὸς ὁμολογουμένη, καὶ μηδέ ποτε πατέρα χωρὶς υἱοῦ >μηδὲ υἱὸν χωρὶς πατρὸς γεγενῆσθαι μηδὲ εἶναι δύνασθαι ὅ ἐστι >λόγος πνεῦμα.

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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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