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Matthew 21:12
He also foretells the change of worship by casting out the animals being slaughtered and the legal traditions. He raises the scourge to show that if they do the same again they will taste blows, and to show the slavish state of those under the law he brings a scourge fitting for household slaves (John 2:15 ).
Greek Καὶ τῆς λατρείας δὲ τὴν μετάθεσιν προμηνύει ἐκβάλλων τὰ σφαγιζόμενα ζῷα καὶ τὰς νομικὰς παραδόσεις. ἐπανατείνεται δὲ τὴν μάστιγα σημαίνων, ὅτι ἂν πάλιν τὰ αὐτὰ ποιήσωσιν, πειραθήσονται πληγῶν, καὶ ἵνα δείξῃ τὸ δουλοπρεπὲς τῶν ὑπὸ νόμον, οἰκέταις πρέ πουσαν ἐπιφέρει μάστιγα.
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About this text Cyril of Alexandria died in 444 — later than the first three centuries of the church.
Cyril of Alexandria's short notes on Matthew's Gospel, kept in later chains of comments, in the order of Matthew's chapters and verses.
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