# Historia ecclesiastica 4.3.7

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 4, Chapter 3. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/4.3.7

ἀλλ’ ἐπειδὴ τὴν Ἀρειανὴν αἵρεσιν ἀνανεῶσαι βουλόμενοι τινὲς μὲν >αὐτὴν τὴν ἐν Νικαίᾳ παρὰ τῶν πατέρων ὁμολογηθεῖσαν πίστιν τετολμήκασιν ἀθετῆσαι, τινὲς δὲ σχηματίζονται ὁμολογεῖν αὐτήν, ταῖς δὲ ἀληθείαις ἀρνοῦνται παρερμηνεύοντες τὸ ὁμοούσιον, καὶ οὑτοι βλασφημοῦντες τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον ἐν τῷ φάσκειν αὐτοὺς κτίσμα εἶναι καὶ ποίημα διὰ τοῦ υἱοῦ γεγονός, ἀναγκαίως θεωρήσαν- >τες τὴν ἐκ τῆς τοιαύτης βλασφημίας βλάβην γιγνομένην κατὰ τῶν λαῶν, ἐπιδοῦναι τῇ σῇ εὐσεβείᾳ τὴν ἐν Νικαίᾳ ὁμολογηθεῖσαν πίστιν ἐσπουδάσαμεν , ἵνα γνῷ σου ἡ θεοσέβεια μεθ’ ὅσης ἀκριβείας γέγρα- >πται καὶ ὅσον πλανῶνται οἱ παρ’ αὐτὴν διδάσκοντες.

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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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