# Historia ecclesiastica 5.37.1

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 5, Chapter 37. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/5.37.1

᾿Ανήρ τις ἀσκητικὸν μὲν ἀσπαζόμενος βίον, θρασυτέρᾳ δὲ χρώμενος γνώμῃ, προσελήλυθε τῷ βασιλεῖ περί τινος δεόμενος. ἐπειδὴ δὲ τοῦτο δράσας πολλάκις οὐκ ἔτυχε, τῆς ἐκκλησιαστικῆς αὐτὸν κοινωνίας ἐκώλυσε καὶ τὸν δεσμὸν ἐπιθεὶς ὑπεχώρησεν. ὁ δὲ πιστότατος βασιλεὺς παραγενόμενος εἰς τὰ βασίλεια, καὶ τοῦ καιροῦ καλοῦντος εἰς εὐωχίαν καὶ τῶν συσσίτων παρόντων, οὐκ ἔφη πρὶν λυθῆναί οἱ τὸν δεσμὸν μετασχήσειν τροφῆς·

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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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