Matthew 24:4–5
The Lord follows the aim of those who bring the question, and for now speaks about the completion of the present age. For before his descent from the heavens takes place, some forerunners will appear — false christs and false prophets molding his face around themselves — but do not follow them, he says.
Greek
Καὶ ἔστιν ἀμπελὼν μὲν ὁ Ἰσραήλ, ὥς φησιν ὁ ψαλμῳδός· "ἄμ πελον ἐξ Αἰγύπτου μετῆρας" καὶ ὁ Ἠσαίας· "ἀμπελών", φησίν, "ἐγε νήθη τῷ ἠγαπημένῳ". ἐφύτευσεν δὲ αὐτὸν ὁ θεὸς καὶ ἀπεδήμησε χρόνον μακρὸν ἤγουν ἐμακροθύμησεν. πλὴν ὁρᾶται πεφροντικὼς τοῦ χω ρίου καὶ εἰς νοῦν ἔχων αὐτό· οὐδεὶς γὰρ γέγονεν διὰ μέσου καιρός, καθ' ὃν οὐκ ἀπεστέλλοντο παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ προφῆται καὶ δίκαιοι νουθετοῦντες. οἱ δὲ γεγόνασιν ἀπειθεῖς καὶ ἀτιμάσαντες τοὺς ἀπεσταλμένους ἀπέστειλαν κενούς, τοῦτ' ἔστιν οὐδὲν ἔχοντας εἰπεῖν περὶ αὐτῶν ἀγαθὸν τῷ πεπομ φότι θεῷ.
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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