Matthew 17:20
“If you have faith as a mustard seed” — that is, hot and boiling, or faith likened to the tiny grain because of smallness in word. For “we have the treasure” of faith “in earthen vessels.”
Greek
Τοῦ θεοῦ παραγγέλλοντος τιμᾶν τοὺς γονεῖς καὶ κίνδυνον ἀπαρ τήσαντος τοῖς παραβαίνουσιν ὑμεῖς παραγγέλλετε τοῖς παισὶ μὴ τιμᾶν τοὺς γονεῖς, εἰ μήπου ἄρα οἱ παῖδες ἐκ φιλοτιμίας τοῦτο θελήσουσιν ποιεῖν, ἀλλ' ἐὰν ὑμᾶς αἰτήσωσί τι, λέγειν πρὸς αὐτούς, ὅπερ ἂν ἐξ ἐμοῦ λάβῃς, ἴσθι τοῦτο ἀποστερῶν τοῦ θεοῦ· εἰς θυσίαν γὰρ αὐτὸ ὑπεσχόμην δοῦναι. καὶ δεῖ μὲν τὸν θεὸν προτιμᾶσθαι τῶν γονέων, χρῆναι δὲ <λέγω> καὶ τὴν εἰς γονέας τιμὴν φυλάττεσθαι ἀπαιτεῖν· οὐ γὰρ διὰ τὸ δοκεῖν προφασίζεσθαι δωροφορεῖν θεῷ ὀφείλουσι πλημμελεῖν εἰς τοὺς ἑαυτῶν γονεῖς.
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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