Matthew 3:7
As men more learned in the law than the rest, they came to John later. He calls them offspring of vipers because of their likeness: when vipers are about to come into the light, they burst their mother’s belly and leave her dead.
In the same way these men left their own mother, Jerusalem, as if she were dead, and were being saved from the killing of Christ — the crime for which they endured incurable evils for a time under the Romans, which he calls the coming wrath.
Greek
Τὸ Ἰωάννου βάπτισμα οὐ παρεῖχε ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν, ἀλλ' ἐδίδασκε τοὺς ἀνθρώπους προστρέχειν τῷ βαπτίσματι διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας.
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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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