Matthew 4:23
If someone asks the difference between disease and weakness, we answer: weakness is the body’s temporary irregularity; disease is disproportion among the elements in the body.
Note also that the inheritance of the tribe of Zebulun and Naphtali stretched as far as the gentile city Sidon, and that Jews were already living mixed with the nations. Zebulun is interpreted “good journey” and “blessing”; Naphtali, “a loosened stem,” that is, a plant stretched out.
Those who believed in Christ became these things. Journeying well, they were counted worthy of the divine blessing and were broadened in every good — those who were formerly in Galilee, which is interpreted “rolling down,” that is, those rolling down into the pits of destruction.
Greek
∆ιδασκαλίας ἐστὶ τὸ ἀναχωρεῖν τὸν Ἰησοῦν. σαφῶς ὁ λόγος διδά σκει, ὅτι οὐ χρή τινα ἐπὶ τὸ διδασκαλεῖον ἐλθεῖν, εἰ μὴ πρότερον βαπτι σθῇ καὶ τύχῃ πνεύματος ἁγίου καὶ νηστεύσῃ ὁλοκλήρως καὶ νικήσῃ πᾶν εἶδος πειρασμοῦ ὡς ὁ τύπος τῆς ἀληθείας ἐν Χριστῷ ἤρξατο καὶ διὰ Χριστοῦ γίνεται.
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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.
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- 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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