Matthew 17:22–23
Mixing in the word about the resurrection, he weaves power together with weakness, glory with ingloriousness, the height of divinity with the cheapness of humanity. For he died as man and lived again as God. The disciples are grieved from love toward Christ, even though the resurrection was announced to come soon — because humans grieve more hotly when they hear grievous things and feel those more than the sweetest.
Greek
Καὶ 21 αὐτοὺς ἀσυνέτους ὁ κύριός φησι περὶ τὸ σῶμα στρεφο μένους, ὥσπερ οἱ Φαρισαῖοι, καὶ μηδέπω διαβαίνοντας ἐπὶ τὸν ἔσω ἄνθρωπον. βρώματα οὖν, φησίν, σώματος ἔχει πλήρωσιν, καρδίας δὲ οὐκ ἐφάπτεται. τὸ δὲ καρδίας μὴ ἐφαπτόμενον οὐ δύναται κοινῶσαι τὸν ἄνθρωπον τὸν ἀληθινὸν ἢ μὴ καθαρὸν ἀπεργάσασθαι.
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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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