Matthew 15:34–39
From many things Christ shows that he is God. Not least, he also presents this by feeding the crowd in the desert — doing the sign of the loaves, as if somehow unwillingly, because of necessity and how hard food was to get — which he would not have done in a city, where market goods are abundant. Yet though he could have strengthened them by a word through what is unseen, he does not do that; he did the sign of the loaves as clearly showing his God-befitting glory.
Peter did not say, “You are Christ,” or “a son of God,” but “the Christ, the Son of God.” For there are many christs by grace and who hold the dignity of adoption, but only one is Son of God by nature. That is why, with the article, he said “the Christ, the Son of God.” And by calling him Son of the living God he shows that he himself was life, and death does not lord it over him. For even if for a little the flesh weakened in dying, it rose, since the Word in it could not be held under death’s bonds.
Greek
Τοῖς ἐπιεικέσι καὶ φιλομαθέ σιν ἔχουσι γνῶσιν ἐνοικισθήσεται τὸ θεῖον φῶς πλουσιώτερον ἢ πά λαι, τοῖς δὲ 18 ἐσχηκόσι σπινθῆρα φωτὸς νοητοῦ, εἰς ἀσύνετον δὲ τρα πεῖσι γνῶσιν σβεσθήσεται καὶ αὐτὸ τὸ μικρὸν ὃ ἔχουσι σέλας, ὅπερ πεπόνθασιν Ἰουδαῖοι εἰς Χριστὸν μὴ πιστεύσαντες· εἶχον γὰρ μικρὰν φωταγωγίαν ἐκ τοῦ νόμου ὁδη γοῦσαν αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ τὴν εἰς θεὸν γνῶσιν. ἐπειδὴ δὲ εἰς Χριστὸν δε δυσσεβήκασιν, καὶ αὐτῆς ἐστερή θησαν. ὁ μέντοι κύριος σαφέστερον δεικνὺς τί ἐστιν ὅπερ εἶπεν, ὅτι τῷ ἔχοντι δοθήσεται, ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ μὴ ἔχοντος καὶ ὃ ἔχει ἀρθή σεται ἀπ' αὐτοῦ, ἐπάγει· διὰ τοῦτο ἐν παραβολαῖς αὐτοῖς λαλῶ, ὅτι βλέποντες οὐ βλέ πουσιν καὶ ἀκούοντες οὐκ ἀκούουσιν οὐδὲ συνιοῦσιν. Τοῖς εὐμαθέσιν ἀνθρώποις καὶ καλῶς διακειμένοις πρὸς παρα δοχὴν θείων λόγων ἐνοικισθήσεται τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον αὐξάνον ἐν αὐτοῖς τὰ χαρίσματα, τοῖς δὲ σπιν θῆρα φωτὸς κεκτημένοις καὶ τού του ἀμελήσασι σβεσθήσεται πάν τως καὶ ἀρθήσεται ἀπ' αὐτῶν καὶ τὸ σμικρότατον, ὃ πρότερον εἶχον. τοῦτο δὲ Ἰουδαῖοι πεπόνθασι λα βόντες φῶς ἐκ τοῦ νόμου καὶ μὴ πολυπλασιάσαντες, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς ἀληθείας ἐλθούσης ἀμβλυωπήσαν τες πρὸς αὐτὴν ἀφῃρέθησαν, ὃ ἐκέκτηντο.
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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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