# Historia ecclesiastica 5.23.6

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 5, Chapter 23. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/5.23.6

τότε Φλαβιανὸς ὁ σοφώτατος τῇ ἀξιεπαίνῳ παρρησίᾳ χρησάμενος ἔφη· »εἰ μὲν τῆς πίστεως, ὢ βασιλεῦ τῆς ἐμῆς ὡς οὐκ ὀρθῆς κατηγοροῦσί τινες ἢ τὸν βίον φασὶν ἱερωσύνης ἀνάξιον, καὶ αὐτοῖς χρήσομαι τοῖς κατηγόροις κριταῖς καὶ τὴν παρ’ ἐκείνων ἐκφερομένην ἀγαπήσω ψῆφον· εἰ δὲ περὶ θρόνου καὶ προεδρίας ζυγομαχοῦσιν, οὔτε δικάσομαι οὔτε τοῖς λαβεῖν βουλομένοις ἀντιμαχέσομαι, ἀλλ’ ἐκστήσομαι καὶ τῆς προεδρίας ἀφέξομαι.

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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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