Matthew 14:13–21
And now he also filled baskets, and that rather each of the disciples was given one as the wage of service — which signifies that those who serve will have a great wage. Since another evangelist also calls the loaves “of barley,” the aim of contemplation looks to this: barley is beastlike food, which is the contemplation through Moses brought to the more irrational. That is also why we say five loaves, because of the fivefold writing of Moses, and two fish, through which is shown the double writing of the fishermen — both apostolic and evangelical.
Greek
Ἐλαφρός ἐστιν ὁ ζυγὸς τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἐπεὶ οὐ κολάζει ἡμᾶς καθάπερ ὁ νόμος τὸ ἀναμάρτητον ἀπαιτῶν καὶ ἀπαθές, ἀλλ' ἐν ἁπλοῖς ῥήμασιν ἔχει τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν καὶ τὸν τῆς ἀρετῆς ὑπογραμμόν.
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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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