Matthew 27:25
The Lord was blaming this unholy outcry of theirs through Jeremiah’s voice: “I have abandoned my house; I have left my inheritance; <I have given my beloved soul into the hands of her enemies. My inheritance has become> to me like a lion in a thicket; she raised her voice against me; therefore I hated her.” Somewhere Hosea also spoke about the Jews’ unholiness: “Woe to them, for they leaped away from me; they are wretched, for they acted impiously against me. I redeemed them, but they spoke false things against me. Their rulers will fall by the sword through the lack of training of their tongue.”
Greek
Ὅρα, ὅτι εἰς δύο τάγματα διαι ρεῖ ὁ λόγος τοὺς ἀνθρώπους, εἴς τε τῶν σῳζομένων καὶ τῶν ἀπολλυ μένων. καὶ τοὺς μὲν σῳζομένους λέγει παραλαμβάνεσθαι, τοὺς δὲ ἀπολλυμένους ἀφίεσθαι ἤγουν ἀποδοκιμάζεσθαι. ἀγρὸν δὲ νοη τέον ὧδε τὸν κόσμον, ἔνθα "ὁ" μὲν "εἰς τὸ πνεῦμα σπείρων θερίζει ζωὴν αἰώνιον, ὁ" δὲ "εἰς τὴν σάρκα, φθοράν". ταῖς δὲ ἀληθούσαις παρ εικάζει τοὺς διδασκάλους, οἵτινες τρόπον τινὰ ἀπολεπτύνοντες τὰς γραφικὰς ἐννοίας εὐπαράδεκτα καὶ εὐνόητα τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τὰ θεῖα λόγια προτιθέασιν· καὶ γὰρ νόμος κελεύων μὴ λαμβάνεσθαι εἰς ἐνέ χυρον μύλον ἢ ἐπιμύλιον, ἵνα μὴ τὰ τῆς τροφῆς ἐργαλεῖα λαβών τις ἐμποδίσῃ τοῖς τρεφομένοις δι' αὐ τῶν, αἰνιγματωδῶς τοὺς διδασκά λους ὑποσημαίνει. Εἰς δύο τάγματα διαιρεῖ τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ὁ κύριος, εἴς τε τὸ τῶν σῳζομένων καὶ εἰς τὸ τῶν ἀπολλυ μένων· καὶ τὸ μὲν τῶν σῳζομένων παραλαμβάνεσθαι λέγει, τοὺς δὲ ἀσεβεῖς ἀφίεσθαι, ὅ ἐστιν ἀποδοκιμάζεσθαι. ταῖς δὲ ἀλη θούσαις τοὺς διδασκάλους παρ εικάζει ὡς λεπτύνοντας τὰς γραφὰς καὶ εὐπαραδέκτους καὶ εὐνοήτους τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ποιοῦντας· καὶ γὰρ ὁ νόμος μὴ λαμβάνεσθαι εἰς ἐνέχυρον μύλον κωλύει ἢ ἐπιμύλιον, ὅπως μὴ τὰ τῆς τροφῆς ἐργαλεῖα λαβών τις ἐμποδὼν γένηται τοῖς τρεφο μένοις. διὸ καὶ αἰνιγματωδῶς ὁ σωτὴρ τοὺς διδασκάλους ὑποση μαίνει.
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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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