Matthew 23:25
Through these he describes the Pharisees’ life, advising not to be molded only by outward fashionings, but also to have the inside clean — what belongs to mind and heart.
Greek
Ἄγεται ὁ πῶλος δύο μαθητῶν ἀπεσταλμένων παρὰ Χριστοῦ· ὑπηρετοῦσι γὰρ πρὸς τοῦτο αὐτῷ δύο τάγματα, προφῆται καὶ ἀπόστολοι, δι' ὧν σαγηνεύονται εἰς πίστιν τὰ ἔθνη. καὶ ἄγεται ἀπό τινος κώμης, ἵνα καὶ ἐκ τούτου τὴν ἄγροικον τῶν ἐθνῶν καταδείξῃ φρένα οὐκ ἐν νόμῳ τεθραμμένων, ζησάντων δὲ μᾶλλον ἀπημελημένως καὶ ἀγρίως, πλὴν μετέστη ἐπὶ τὸ ἡμερώτερον· γέγονε γὰρ ὑπὸ Χριστῷ ταῦτα διδά σκοντι. καὶ παῖδες δὲ "βάϊα φοινίκων" ἀνατείναντες προέτρεχον αὐτοῦ καὶ ὁμοῦ τοῖς μαθηταῖς τὴν δοξολογίαν συνετίθεσαν, ἵνα καὶ δι' αὐτῶν τὸν νέον καὶ ἐξ ἐθνῶν ὥσπερ ἐν πίνακι γεγραμμένον ἴδωμεν λαόν· γέ γραπται γάρ· "καὶ λαὸς ὁ κτιζόμενος αἰνέσει τὸν κύριον".
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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