Matthew 26:42–44
He intensifies the prayer and weaves through the same words, setting what concerns himself beside us as outline and pattern. For I think we must not offer <a prayer> only once according to eagerness, but rather approach frequently and not blush at repeating the same until our requests depart to an end for us. For this reason Christ also made a third prayer about the same things, though he knew the will of God the Father very clearly; rather, through the third he was confirming that he had become human.
Greek
Ἐπεδείκνυόν τινες τῷ Χριστῷ τὰς ἐν τῷ ναῷ μεγαλουργίας καὶ τὸν τῶν ἀναθημάτων κόσμον· ᾠήθησαν γάρ, ὅτι θαυμάσει σὺν αὐτοῖς τὰ ὁρώμενα καίτοι θεὸς ὢν καὶ ἔχων θρόνον τὸν οὐρανόν. ὁ δὲ ἀφίησι μὲν τὸν περὶ αὐτῶν λόγον, προμεμήνυκε δέ, ὅτι ἐκ βάθρων πεσεῖται κατὰ καιροὺς κατακομιζούσης εἰς τοῦτο αὐτὸν τῆς Ῥωμαίων στρατιᾶς καὶ ἅπασαν τὴν Ἰερουσαλὴμ τὰς τῆς κυριοκτονίας δίκας ἐξαιτούσης τὸν Ἰσραήλ· μετὰ γάρ τοι τὸν τοῦ σωτῆρος σταυρὸν ταῦτα συνέβη παθεῖν αὐτούς, οἱ δὲ οὐ συνίεσαν τῶν λεγομένων τὴν δύναμιν. ᾠήθησαν δὲ τοὺς περὶ συντελείας τοῦ αἰῶνος λόγους ἐξυφαίνειν αὐτόν. ἤροντο δὴ οὖν πότε ταῦτα ἔσονται, καὶ τί τὸ σημεῖον, ὅταν μέλλῃ γίνεσθαι.
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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