Matthew 5:23
Saying, “If you offer your gift,” and what follows, makes this clear: God invented a way of salvation and an escape from punishment for sinners — a change of mind — and he says healing the one who was grieved will overturn punishment.
Since the one who does not love his brother does not love the Lord, he reasonably does not accept the one who approaches while his brother is in grief, as one not truly coming to him.
Greek
Φῶς δὲ αὐτοὶ κατὰ μετοχὴν γενόμενοι ὅτε ζῆτε οὐκέτι αὐτοί, ζῇ δὲ ἐν ὑμῖν τὸ φῶς, ὁ Χριστός, δυνάμενος διὰ λόγου καὶ ὅλον φωτίζειν τὸν κόσμον.
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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