# Historia ecclesiastica 5.28.1

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 5, Chapter 28. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/5.28.1

Ὁ δὲ μέγας Ἰωάννης τοὺς τῆς ἐκκλησίας δεξάμενος οἴακας τάς τε παρά τινων γιγνομένας ἀδικίας σὺν παρρησίᾳ διήλεγχε, καὶ βασιλεῖ καὶ βασιλίδι παρῄνει τὰ πρόσφορα, καὶ τοὺς ἱερέας ἠξίου κατὰ τοὺς κειμένους πολιτεύεσθαι νόμους, τοὺς δὲ τούτους παραβαίνειν τολμῶντας ἐπιβαίνειν τῶν ἀνακτόρων ἐκώλυεν, οὐ χρῆναι λέγων τῆς μὲν τῶν ἱερέων ἀπολαύειν τιμῆς, τὴν δὲ τῶν ἀληθινῶν ἱερέων μὴ ζηλοῦν βιοτήν.

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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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