# Historia ecclesiastica 5.20.7

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/5.20.7

κατ’ εἰκόνα δὲ θείαν καὶ ὁμοίωσιν ἡ τῶν ἀνθρώπων δεδημιούργηται φύσις. μὴ τοίνυν ὠμῶς οὕτω καὶ ἀπηνῶς τοῦ θεοῦ τὴν εἰκόνα κατασφαγῆναι κελεύσῃς· παροξύνεις γὰρ τὸν δημιουργὸν τὴν ἐκείνου κολάζων εἰκόνα. σκόπησον γὰρ ὡς καὶ σὺ χαλκῆς ἕνεκα δυσχεραίνων εἰκόνος ταῦτα ποιεῖς· ὅσον δὲ τῆς ἀψύχου διαφέρει ἡ ἔμψυχός τε καὶ ζῶσα καὶ λογική, δῆλον ἅπασι τοῖς γε νοῦν ἔχουσι.

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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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