Matthew 27:24
Pilate, neglecting right and just judgment, did not even reason that he was giving an innocent man over to death, though he was master of delivering him. And he washes his hands, having supposed that through this he was free of the sin — which is foolish to think. Perhaps, as a gentile, he imagined that the water itself sufficed for cleansing of sins.
Greek
Εἰ καὶ ἡ συντέλεια δήλη ἦν, τί οὐκ ἂν ἐποίησαν; εἰ ὁ υἱὸς σοφία ἐστὶν τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ εἰ, ἃ οἶδεν αὐτός, οὐκ οἶδεν ἡ σοφία, εὑρίσκεται πάλιν αὐτὸς ἀγνοῶν ἢ ὅτι ἡ φύσις αὐτοῦ βελτίων ἐστὶν τῆς σοφίας αὐτοῦ, καὶ εὑρίσκεται σύνθετος καὶ ἀνόμοιος ἑαυτῷ ὁ ἁπλοῦς θεός· πλὴν οὐ τὸ ἀγνοεῖν καὶ εἰδέναι ποιεῖ τῆς οὐσίας διαφορὰν ὥσπερ οὐδὲ ἐπ' ἀν θρώπων, ἀλλὰ πάθος ἐστὶν τὸ τῆς ἀγνοίας, ὅπερ οὐκ ἔχει ὁ υἱός, ἀλλὰ θεός ἐστιν φύσει καὶ κατὰ τοὺς αἱρετικοὺς πάθους ἀνεπίδεκτος. εἰ δὲ πάντα τὰ τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ πατρός ἐστιν καὶ πάντα τὰ τοῦ πατρὸς τοῦ υἱοῦ, ἢ ἀμφότεροι ἀγνοοῦσιν ἢ οἶδεν ὁ πατὴρ καὶ ὁ υἱὸς οἶδεν ὡς ἔχων τοῦ πατρὸς πάντα κατὰ φύσιν αὐτῷ ὄντα· οὐ γὰρ περὶ τῆς δεσποτείας τῶν κτισμάτων τοῦτό φησιν· πλὴν ἡνίκα ὀνομάζει ἡ γραφὴ πατέρα, τὸ σύμ παν τῆς ἐν ἁγίᾳ τριάδι νοουμένης καὶ προσκυνουμένης θεότητος ση μαίνει.
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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