Matthew 19:24
By “camel” here he does not mean the burden-bearing animal, but the thick rope with which sailors bind the anchors. He does not show this as wholly impossible, but by the extreme difficulty places the matter somehow near and next door to the impossible. From this it is clear that the one about to accomplish it is no ordinary person — he needs grace.
Greek
–21 Ὅτι Ἰησοῦς Χριστός ἐστιν, δείκνυται διὰ τούτου· φησὶν γὰρ τὰ τῆς οἰκονομίας μέλλειν ἃ ἔδει κηρύττεσθαι τελείως μετὰ τούτου εἶναι *** ἵνα Χριστὸν ἐσταυρωμένον ὑπὸ τῶν μαρτυρεῖν δυναμέ νων *** ἐπεὶ δὲ οὐκ ἐδέχετο "προφήτην <ἀπολέσθαι> ἔξω Ἰερουσαλὴμ" ἀπώλειαν ἀναλογίαν ἔχουσαν πρὸς τὸ "ἀπολέσας τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ, εὑρήσει αὐτήν", διὰ τοῦτο εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα ἄπεισιν.
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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.
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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