# Historia ecclesiastica 5.9.5

Theodoretus, Historia ecclesiastica, Book 5, Chapter 9. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/theodoretus-scr-eccl-et-theol/historia-ecclesiastica/5.9.5

χρημάτων δὲ ζημίας καὶ προστιμή- >σεις πόλεων, καὶ τὰς τῶν καθ’ ἕνα δημεύσεις καὶ συσκευὰς καὶ >καὶ δεσμωτήρια τίς ἂν ἐξαριθμήσασθαι δύναιτο; πᾶσαι γὰρ >ἐφ’ ἡμᾶς αἱ θλίψεις ἐπληθύνθησαν ὑπὲρ ἀριθμόν, ἴσως μὲν >δίκας ἁμαρτημάτων ἐτίναμεν, ἴσως δὲ καὶ τοῦ φιλανθρώπου >διὰ τοῦ πλήθους τῶν παθημάτων ἡμᾶς. >Τούτων μὲν οὑν τῷ θεῷ χάρις, ὃς καὶ διὰ τοσούτων >Τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ δούλους ἐπαίδευσε, καὶ κατὰ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν >αὐτοῦ πάλιν ἐξήγαγεν ἡμᾶς εἰς ἀναψυχήν.

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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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