# Historia ecclesiastica 2.8.7

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 2, Chapter 8. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/2.8.7

μαρτυροῦντες μὲν >τῇ καθαρότητι τοῦ συλλειτουργοῦ ἡμῶν Ἀθανασίου. τὰ δὲ >τῶν περὶ Εὐσέβιον γενόμενα οὐδὲν ἕτερον ἢ ψεύδη καὶ >εἶναι μεστά. εἰ καὶ τὰ μάλιστα ἐκ τοῦ κληθέντας αὐτοὺς παρὰ >ἀγαπητοῦ καὶ συλλειτουργοῦ Ἰουλίου μὴ ἀπαντῆσαι, καὶ ἐκ >γραφέντων παρὰ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐπισκόπου Ἰουλίου φανερὰ τούτων >συκοφαντία πέφηνεν (ἠλθον γὰρ ἂν εἴπερ ἐθάρρουν >καὶ πεποιήκασι κατὰ τῶν συλλειτουρυῶν ἡμῶν), ὅμως καὶ ἐξ >πεποιήκασιν ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ ἁγίᾳ καὶ μεγάλῃ συνόδῳ, φανερωτέραν >ἑαυτῶν συσκευὴν ἀπέδειξαν. ἀπαντήσαντες γὰρ εἰς τὴν >πόλιν, ἰδόντες τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς ἡμῶν Ἀθανάσιον καὶ Μάρκελλον >᾿Ασκληπᾶν καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους, ἐφοβήθησαν εἰς κρίσιν ἐλθεῖν.

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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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