Matthew 28:18
Still economically, and in a more human way, he said “it was given to me.” Yet he wants it understood that he has authority over all as God, and that, leaving the measure of the emptying, he ran back into the glory innate and always present to him, and is confessed God and Lord of all even with the flesh. So when he says “it was given to me,” it is not as if he first received it when he became human, but as receiving, in the rank of a human, what he always had because he exists from the Father and is God by nature.
Greek
28 Μετὰ τὸ ἐξελθεῖν τὸν Ἰούδαν παραδίδωσιν ὁ σωτὴρ τοῖς ἕνδεκα τὸ σωτηριῶδες μυστήριον· ἐπειδὴ γὰρ μικρὸν ὕστερον ἔμελλεν ὁ Χρι στὸς ἀναστὰς μετὰ τῆς ἰδίας σαρ κὸς ἀναφοιτῆσαι πρὸς τὸν πατέρα, ἵνα τὴν τοῦ σώματος αὐτοῦ παρ ουσίαν ἔχωμεν– ἄνευ γὰρ τῆς παρουσίας τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἀδύνατον σωθῆναι ἄνθρωπον καὶ ἀπαλλα γῆναι θανάτου καὶ ἁμαρτίας μὴ συν ούσης ἡμῖν τῆς ζωῆς–ἔδωκεν οὖν ἡμῖν τὸ ἴδιον σῶμά τε καὶ αἷμα, ἵνα δι' αὐτῶν καὶ τὸ τῆς φθορᾶς καταλύηται κράτος, ἐνοικίζηται δὲ ταῖς ἡμετέραις ψυχαῖς διὰ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος, καὶ γενώμεθα ἁγιασμοῦ μέτοχοι καὶ οὐράνιοι ἄν θρωποι καὶ πνευματικοὶ χρημα τίσωμεν. Ἐπειδὴ μετὰ τὴν ἀνάστασιν ἔμελλεν ὁ Χριστὸς ἀναληφθῆναι πρὸς τὸν πατέρα μετὰ σώματος, διὰ τοῦτο δέδωκεν ἡμῖν τὸ ἴδιον σῶμά τε καὶ αἷμα, ἵνα ἐνοικιζομένη ἐν ἡμῖν ἡ αὐτοῦ σὰρξ καὶ τὸ αἷμα ποιήσῃ ἡμᾶς ἁγίους καὶ τῆς ἀθανα σίας μετόχους.
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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