Matthew 16:27–28
By “glory” he means the transformation and change of our nature from the form now seen into a glorious and incomparable glory. And of those who also have one glory, much more is the substance one.
Otherwise by “glory” he means the transformation and remodeling of our nature that has the glorious and incomparable glory beside the form now seen.
Greek
Ὅτι δὲ οἰκουμενικὴ γέγονεν ἡ διὰ Χριστοῦ κλῆσις, αὐτὸς πιστώ σεται λέγων ἐναργῶς, ὅτι τῶν εὐαγγελικῶν κηρυγμάτων τὸ λίνον ἐκ παντὸς συνάγει γένους. καὶ ὥσπερ οἱ τῆς τῶν ἰχθύων θήρας ἐπιστή μονες καὶ 19 θαλασσουργικὸν ἔχοντες ἐπιτήδευμα χαλῶσι τὸ λίνον οὐ δια κρίνοντες, ἀλλ' ὅπερ ἂν τοῖς βρόχοις ἐναποληφθῇ, τοῦτο πάντη καὶ πάν τως ἕλκουσιν εἰς γῆν, οὕτω καὶ ἡ δύναμις τοῦ κηρύγματος καὶ ἡ θαυ μαστὴ καὶ πολύπλοκος τῶν ἱερῶν μαθημάτων διδασκαλία, ἣν οἱ καλοὶ ἁλιευταὶ ἀπόστολοι ἔπλεξαν, ἐκ παντὸς ἕλκει γένους καὶ συνάγει πρὸς θεόν. συνάγει δὲ μέχρι καιροῦ, ὃς πληρωθήσεται κατὰ τὸν καιρὸν τῆς συντελείας, καθ' ὃν τοὺς σαγηνευθέντας ἐκτὸς τοῦ βίου ἑλκύσαντες οἱ ἐπὶ τούτῳ τεταγμένοι ἄγγελοι τοῦ θεοῦ τὴν πάντων διάκρισιν ποιήσονται ἀφορίζοντες τοὺς πονηροὺς ἐκ μέσου τῶν δικαίων.
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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