Matthew 12:38
“Since the signs that have happened,” they say, “were of demons, who produce appearances only on earth, you too make a sign from heaven by your own power.” Another evangelist said clearly that they were asking him to make a sign “from heaven,” which it was fitting for divine power to do. They said this as if he could not do anything God-befitting, blind in mind — for opening blind eyes, raising the dead, and rebuking sea and winds belong to God-befitting authority alone.
Greek
Ἐπειδὴ ἡ τῶν οὐρανῶν βασιλεία ἐστὶν ἡ εἰς τὸν Χριστὸν πίστις, ἀπὸ τοῦ κηρύγματος Ἰωάννου ἤρχθη, ὃς ὑπεδείκνυ τὸν κηρυττόμενον διὰ τοῦ βαπτίσματος ἄγοντα εἰς βασιλείαν. ἐκεῖνοι δὲ βιάζονται εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν εἰσελθεῖν οἱ τῷ τῆς εἰδωλολατρείας ἀποταττόμενοι παλαιῷ καὶ εἰκαίῳ ἔθει καὶ οἱ τῷ γράμματι μὴ προσέχοντες, ἀλλ' ὥσπερ ἐκ βίας τινὸς διὰ τῆς εἰς Χριστὸν πίστεως μεθελκόμενοι. εἰπὼν δὲ ὑπὸ βιαστῶν ἁρπάζεσθαι τὴν βασιλείαν τὸ κακόηθες αἰνίττεται τῶν Ἰου δαίων, οἳ οὐ μόνον οὐκ ἐπίστευον εἰς τὸν Χριστόν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους διεκώλυον δι' ἀπειλῶν καὶ πληγῶν. καὶ ἔδει βεβαίους τῷ φρονήματι δειχθῆναι τοὺς θέλοντας διὰ τῆς εἰς Χριστὸν πίστεως μετασχεῖν τῆς τῶν οὐρανῶν βασιλείας καταφρονοῦντας τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἀπειλῶν. πλὴν καὶ ὁ πιστός, ὅταν εὐτόνως ἀνθίστηται πρὸς τὰ σωματικὰ καὶ ψυχικὰ πάθη πρὸς τὸ εἰσελάσαι εἰς τὴν τῶν οὐρανῶν βασιλείαν, οὗτος φιλόθεός ἐστι βιαστής. τὸ δὲ ἕως ἄρτι τοῦτ' ἔστιν ἕως τοῦ διηνεκοῦς.
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.
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- 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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