# Historia ecclesiastica 5.20.6

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 5, Chapter 20. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/5.20.6

Ὁ δὲ τῆς θείας σοφίας ἐμφορηθεὶς τοιοῖσδε πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἐχρήσατο λόγοις· εἴπατε, ὢ φίλοι ἄνδρες, τῷ βασιλεῖ· οὐ βασιλεὺς εἶ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἄνθρωπος. μὴ τοίνυν μόνην ὅρα τὴν βασιλείαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν φύσιν λογίζου· ἄνθρωπος γὰρ ὢν ὁμοφυῶν βασιλεύεις·

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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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