Matthew 18:25
Through the sale of the wife and the rest is signified the total removal and complete falling away of the pleasant things from God. The sale shows alienation from God; for those to whom that bitter, unsmiling word comes are alien to God: “Depart from me, workers of lawlessness; for I never knew you.”
Greek
Ἄθρει, ὅπως κύριον ἑαυτὸν ἀποφαίνει συλλήβδην οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς· ὑπισχνεῖται γὰρ τὰ ὑπὲρ τὴν φύσιν τὴν καθ' ἡμᾶς, μᾶλλον δὲ καὶ τάξεως τῆς ἀγγελικῆς καὶ ὅσα μόνῃ πρέπει χαρίζεσθαι τῇ ἀνωτάτω πασῶν φύσει τε καὶ δόξῃ· πρῶτον μὲν γάρ φησιν ἑαυτοῦ εἶναι τὴν ἐκκλησίαν καίτοι τῶν ἱερῶν γραμμάτων θεῷ μᾶλλον καὶ οὐδενὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἀφιερούντων "μὴ ἔχουσαν σπίλον ἢ ῥυτίδα", ἣν δὴ καὶ θεμελιοῦν ἐπαγγέλλεται τὸ ἀκατάσειστον αὐτῇ προσνέμων ὡς αὐτὸς ὑπάρχων τῶν δυνάμεων κύριος καὶ ταύτης ποιμένα τὸν Πέτρον ἐφίστησιν. εἶτα ἔφη· καὶ δώσω σοι τὰς κλεῖς τῆς βασιλείας τῶν οὐρανῶν. ταύτην δὲ τὴν φωνὴν οὐκ ἄγγελος, οὐκ ἄλλη τις λογικὴ δύναμις φθέγξασθαι δύναται, πρέπει δὲ μᾶλλον τῷ πάντων κρατοῦντι θεῷ καὶ ἐξουσίαν ἔχοντι γῆς τε καὶ οὐρανοῦ.
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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