Matthew 9:2
The Lord did not look at the faith of the paralyzed man, but at the faith of those who brought him. There are times when one person is healed through another’s faith, and the holy writing of the Gospels is full of such cases. Seeing their faith, he does not show their labor vain, but says “child” — either to him as one who also believed, or according to the word of creation.
He called the paralytic “child” by the word of creation, or as one who had believed in him and known him as Lord and Creator.
Greek
∆όματα δὲ ἀγαθὰ καλεῖ τὰς πνευματικὰς δωρεάς, ὁ δὲ Λουκᾶς "πνεῦμα ἅγιον" εἶπεν ἀντὶ τοῦ εἰπεῖν ἀγαθά. καὶ οὐδὲν τὸ διάφορον· τὸ γὰρ "ἅγιον πνεῦμα" αὐτό ἐστι τὸ φύσει ἀγαθόν. διὸ καὶ τοῖς μετό χοις δίδωσιν ἀγαθά. τοῖς δὲ ἄγαν πονηροῖς διὰ τὸ ἀνενδότως ἁμαρ τάνειν τρόπον τινὰ φύσις αὐτοῖς ἡ κακία γίνεται, οἷός ἐστιν ὁ σατανᾶς καὶ οἱ δαίμονες· δύναται γάρ τις καὶ τούτους φύσει κακοὺς εἰπεῖν, καίπερ μὴ φύσει κακοὺς δημιουργηθέντας, ἀλλ' ἐξ αὐτοπροαιρέτου κακίας ἀπε σκληκότας.
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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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