# Historia ecclesiastica 4.21.1

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 4, Chapter 21. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/4.21.1

Ἐπειδὴ δὲ τοῖς ἀρχιερατικοῖς αὐτὸν ἐνίδρυσαν θώκοις, εὐθὺς ὁ τοῦ ἔθνους ἡγούμενος, τὸν Ἑλληνικὸν καὶ Ἰουσαϊκὸν ὅμιλον συναθροίσας, τοὺς τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἐκύκλωσε περιβόλους ἐξιέναι τῷ Πέτρῳ παρεγγυῶν καὶ γὰρ ἄκοντα ἐξελάσειν ἠπείλει. ἐποίει δὲ ταῦτα τῷ βασιλεῖ μὲν δῆθεν τὰ θυμήρη πραγματευόμενος καὶ τοὺς τἀναντία φρονοῦντας ἀναπιμπλὰς συμφορῶν, τῇ δέ γε ἀληθείᾳ τῆς δυσσεβοῦς ὀργῆς ἐμφορούμενος τῆς γὰρ τῶν εἰδώλων θεραπείας ἐξήρτητο,

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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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