# Historia ecclesiastica 3.19.3

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 3, Chapter 19. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/3.19.3

ᾖδον δὲ μάλιστα ἐκεῖνα τὰ ᾄσματα ὁ τῶν εἰδώλων κωμῳδεῖ τὴν ἀσθένειαν, καὶ μετὰ τοῦ Δαβὶδ ἔλεγον· »τὰ εἴδωλα τῶν ἐθνῶν ἀργύριον καὶ χρυσίον, ἔργα χειρῶν ἀνθρώπων‘. καὶ μετὰ τὴν τῆς ἀναισθησίας διήγησιν ἔλεγον· ὅμοιοι αὐτοῖς γένοιντο οἱ ποιοῦντες αὐτὰ καὶ πάντες οἱ πεποιθότες ἐπ’ αὐτοῖς«. τούτων ἀκούσας ἐκεῖνος καὶ λίαν ἀνιαθεὶς σιγὰν αὐταῖς προσέταξε κατὰ τὸν τῆς παρόδου καιρόν.

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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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