# Historia ecclesiastica 5.39.4

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 5, Chapter 39. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/5.39.4

οὐδὲ γὰρ ὁ θεῖος ἀπόστολος, εἰς τὰς Ἀθήνας ἀφικόμενος καὶ τὴν πόλιν κατείδωλον θεασάμενος, τῶν βωμῶν τινα τῶν ὑπ’ ἐκείνων τιμωμένων κατέλυσεν, ἀλλὰ λόγῳ καὶ τὴν ἄγνοιαν ἤλεγξε καὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἔδειξε. τὸ δὲ τὸν καταλυθέντα μὴ ἀνοικοδομῆσαι νεὼν ἀλλὰ τὴν σφαγὴν ἑλέσθαι μᾶλλον ἢ τοῦτο δρᾶσαι, κομιδῇ θαυμάζω καὶ στεφάνων τιμῶμαι· ἴσον γάρ μοι δοκεῖ τοῦ προσκυνῆσαι τὸ πῦρ τὸ τούτῳ τέμενος δείμασθαι.

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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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