# Historia ecclesiastica 4.22.4

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 4, Chapter 22. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/4.22.4

αὐτοὶ τοίνυν οὔτοι ὀργῆς σκεύη τυγχάνοντες »κατηρτισμένα εἰς ἀπώλειαν‘, τὴν ῥῖνα σιμώσαντες, ψόφον ἀσελγῆ ἀπὸ τῶν μυκτήρων μακρόν, καὶ ἵν οὕτως εἴπω, ὡς ἀπὸ κρουνοῦ προχέοντες, τὴν μὲν ἐσθῆτα διέρρησσον τῶν ἁγίων τοῦ Χριστοῦ παρθένων, ὧν ἡ ἄσκησις τύπον ἁγίων 〈ἀγγέλων> ἐχαρακτήριξεν, ὡς δ’ ἡ φύοις ἔχει γυμνὰς πᾶσαν τὴν πόλιν ἐθριάμβευον, διαπαίζοντες μετὰ ἀσελγείας ὃν τρόπον ἐβούλοντο, καὶ ὅλως ὠμὰ καὶ ξένα τὰ γενόμενα.

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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/.