Matthew 5:31
The one who casts out a chaste wife gives her leave to marry another — a form of adultery, as if the yoking were not loosed. For divorce papers do not loose marriage before God; improper deed does.
Greek
Ὃ λέγει, τοιοῦτόν ἐστιν· πρὸ δίκης εὐγνωμόνει. ἐπεὶ καὶ ἐὰν ἐγκληθῇς καὶ φυλακισθῇς, οὐκ ἀπολύῃ ἕως οὗ ἀποτίσῃς ἕως ὀβο λοῦ· τοῦτο γὰρ ὁ κοδράντης δηλοῖ. Ὃ δὲ λέγει, τοιοῦτόν ἐστιν· παραινεῖ γὰρ εὐγνωμονεῖν καὶ μὴ τῇ κρίσει θαρρεῖν· εἰ γάρ τι συμ βαίη παρ' ἐλπίδα καὶ κατασχεθῇς ὑπὸ τοῦ κριτοῦ, οὐκ ἀπολυθήσῃ ἕως οὗ ἀποτίσῃς τὸν ἔσχατον ὀβολόν· τοῦτο γὰρ λέγεται κο δράντης.
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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