Matthew 21:33–41
The vineyard is Israel, as the psalmist says, “You brought a vine out of Egypt,” and Isaiah, “A vineyard was made for the beloved.” God planted it and went abroad a long time — that is, he was long-suffering. Yet he is seen caring for the place and holding it in mind; for there was no intervening time when prophets and righteous men were not being sent from God to admonish. But they became disobedient, and having dishonored those sent, they sent them away empty — that is, with nothing good to say about them to the God who sent them.
Greek
∆υνάμενος καὶ ἐκ τῆς γῆς παραγαγεῖν τὸν στατῆρα οὐκ ἐποί ησε τοῦτο, ἀλλ' ἐκ τῆς θαλάσσης τὸ σημεῖον ἐποίησεν, ἵνα μυστήριον ἡμᾶς διδάξῃ θεωρίας γέμον· ἰχθύες γὰρ ἦμεν ἐκ τῶν πικρῶν τοῦ βίου ταραχῶν ἀνασπασθέντες ὡς ἐκ θα λάσσης διὰ τῶν ἀποστολικῶν ἀγκί στρων ἔχοντες ἐν τοῖς ἑαυτῶν στό μασι τὸν Χριστὸν τὸν στατῆρα τὸν βασιλικόν, ὃς ἐδόθη ὑπὲρ δύο ἀντίλυτρον, ὑπὲρ ψυχῆς καὶ σώ ματος ἡμῶν ἤτοι ὑπὲρ δύο λαῶν, Ἰουδαίων τε καὶ ἐθνικῶν, ὁμοίως λυτρούμενος πένητας καὶ πλουσίους ἐπείπερ καὶ ὁ παλαιὸς νόμος ἀνυ ποστόλως ἐξ ἴσου ἀπῄτει τὸ τέλος τῆς δραχμῆς παρά τε πλουσίου καὶ πένητος. Ἠδύνατο ὁ σωτὴρ καὶ ἐκ τῆς γῆς παραγαγεῖν τὸν στατῆρα, οὐκ ἐποίησε δὲ τοῦτο, ἀλλ' ἐκ τῆς θα λάσσης τὸ σημεῖον εἰργάσατο, ἵνα δείξῃ μυστήριον ἡμῖν θεωρίας ἔμ πλεον· ἡμεῖς γάρ ἐσμεν οἱ ἰχθύες θηρευθέντες ἐκ τῶν τοῦ βίου τα ραχῶν διὰ τῶν ἀποστολικῶν διδαγ μάτων. ἔχομεν δὲ ἐν τοῖς στόμασιν ἡμῶν τὸν στατῆρα, τοῦτ' ἔστιν τὸν Χριστόν.
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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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