Matthew 13:52
A “scribe” is the one who, through persistent reading of the scriptures of both the old and the new, has stored up a treasure of knowledge for himself. That is why he blesses those who have brought together in themselves both legal and gospel training, so as to bring out from the treasure things new and old. He also likens these to a scribe, just as elsewhere he says, “I send you wise men and scribes.” See how he does not cast out the old — through which the soul is adorned.
Greek
Ὁ οὖν ἀκούσας τῆς κλήσεως καὶ ἐγγίσας καὶ κολληθεὶς τῷ προσ τάξαντι, οὗτος ἀναπαύεται. ἀποστάντες, φησίν, τῆς φιλαμαρτήμονος γνώμης καὶ τῆς φιλοσαρκίας καὶ μετατρεπόμενοι ἐπὶ τὰ ἐπαίνου ἄξια πράγματα ἐγγίσατέ μοι, ἵνα γένησθε "θείας κοινωνοὶ φύσεως" καὶ ἁγίου πνεύματος μέτοχοι. πάντας δὲ καλεῖ καὶ οὐ μόνους τοὺς ἐξ Ἰσραὴλ ὡς πάντων δημιουργὸς καὶ κύριος καὶ κοπιῶντας μὲν λέγει τοὺς Ἰουδαίους τοὺς μὴ ἰσχύοντας βαστάσαι τὸν νομικὸν ζυγόν, πεφορ τισμένους τοὺς εἰδωλολάτρας τοὺς διὰ τοῦ διαβόλου καταφορτισ θέντας καὶ τῷ πλήθει τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν καταβαρυνομένους. ὑμεῖς οὖν, φησίν, ὦ Ἰουδαῖοι, νεύσατε πρὸς τὴν ἀλήθειαν καὶ ἐπίγνωτε ἐμὲ τὸν ὑμέτερον κηδεμόνα καὶ δεσπότην καὶ ἐγγύθεν τῆς προσόδου τὸ κέρδος κομιζόμενοι. ἀπαλλάττω γὰρ ὑμᾶς τῆς ὑπὸ τὸν νόμον δουλείας, ἐν ᾗ πολὺν ὑπομένετε κόπον, οὔτε ῥᾳδίως ἐξανύειν αὐτὸν δυνάμενοι καὶ μέγιστον τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων "τὸ φορτίον" ἑαυτοῖς κατασκευάζοντες, ὅσῳ πλείονα φυλάττειν προσῆκεν ὑμᾶς ἀκόλουθα τῷ νόμῳ διαπραττομένους.
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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