Matthew 10:19
“It is given,” he says — a word is given to some when it is useful to make a defense, so that through the confession some may be helped and the church strengthened.
Greek
Ἡ θεία τοῦ μονογενοῦς φύσις ἀφράστῳ πυρὶ κατέφλεγεν τοὺς δαίμονας ὥσπερ καὶ ἄλλα ἀφανῶς ἐποίει, τοὺς ἀγριωτέρους τῶν δαι μόνων εἰς ὁδοὺς ἐγκλείων καὶ τὴν τοῦ 10 διαβόλου καθελὼν τυραννίδα. ἦλθες, φασίν, πρὸ καιροῦ· ᾔδεσαν γὰρ ἐν τῷ λόγῳ, ὅτι καὶ ἔμελλεν ἥξειν ὁ Χριστὸς καὶ ὅτι αὐτὸς ἔχει αὐτοὺς κρῖναι. εἰ δὲ καὶ τὸ πρὸ καιροῦ εἶπον ὡς διαβάλλοντες τὸν τῆς ἐνανθρωπήσεως καιρὸν ὡς παρὰ καιρὸν γεγονυίας, οὐδὲν θαυμαστὸν εἰ πονηροὶ ὄντες καὶ τοῦτο τολμῶσι λέγειν. καίτοι εἰδότες, ὅτι τιμωρηθήσονται, ὥστε ὑπερόπται λέγουσιν· τί ἡμῖν καὶ σοί· ἔχει γὰρ λόγον μεθ' ἡμῶν ὁ κριτής, ἀφ' οὗ παρέ βημεν τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ.
About this text
Catena fragments on Matthew (CPG 5206). Contents follow Matthew chapter and verse. Edition fragment numbers stay in About this text and under each passage.
English follows the named copy-text (Aegean/khazarzar Migne PG 72 extract). Other prints were checked as noted; no silent merge of recensions.
Witnesses
- Copy-text Migne PG 72 Commentarii in Matthaeum (Aegean Digital Patrologia / khazarzar) (Greek · CPG 5206 catena fragments (290 parsed heads))
- Checked print matia.gr mirror of same Aegean extract (Greek · Byte-identical PDF; integrity check only)
- Checked print Internet Archive PG 72 volume OCR (bim … 1859_72) (Greek (OCR damaged) · Locus confirmation only; not used as reading text)
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