Matthew 24:36
Even if the completion was clear, what would they not have done? If the Son is the wisdom of the Father, and if what he himself knows wisdom does not know, he is found again not knowing — or else his nature is better than his wisdom, and the simple God is found composite and unlike himself. Yet not-knowing and knowing do not make a difference of essence, any more than they do among humans; ignorance is a passion, which the Son does not have, but he is God by nature and, even on the heretics’ terms, unreceptive of passions. But if all that is the Son’s is the Father’s and all that is the Father’s is the Son’s, either both do not know, or the Father knows and the Son knows as having by nature all that is the Father’s. For he does not say this about lordship over creatures; yet whenever scripture names “Father,” (Matthew 24:36) it signifies the whole of the divinity thought and worshipped in the holy Trinity.
Greek
Εἰ καὶ ἡ συντέλεια δήλη ἦν, τί οὐκ ἂν ἐποίησαν; εἰ ὁ υἱὸς σοφία ἐστὶν τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ εἰ, ἃ οἶδεν αὐτός, οὐκ οἶδεν ἡ σοφία, εὑρίσκεται πάλιν αὐτὸς ἀγνοῶν ἢ ὅτι ἡ φύσις αὐτοῦ βελτίων ἐστὶν τῆς σοφίας αὐτοῦ, καὶ εὑρίσκεται σύνθετος καὶ ἀνόμοιος ἑαυτῷ ὁ ἁπλοῦς θεός· πλὴν οὐ τὸ ἀγνοεῖν καὶ εἰδέναι ποιεῖ τῆς οὐσίας διαφορὰν ὥσπερ οὐδὲ ἐπ' ἀν θρώπων, ἀλλὰ πάθος ἐστὶν τὸ τῆς ἀγνοίας, ὅπερ οὐκ ἔχει ὁ υἱός, ἀλλὰ θεός ἐστιν φύσει καὶ κατὰ τοὺς αἱρετικοὺς πάθους ἀνεπίδεκτος. εἰ δὲ πάντα τὰ τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ πατρός ἐστιν καὶ πάντα τὰ τοῦ πατρὸς τοῦ υἱοῦ, ἢ ἀμφότεροι ἀγνοοῦσιν ἢ οἶδεν ὁ πατὴρ καὶ ὁ υἱὸς οἶδεν ὡς ἔχων τοῦ πατρὸς πάντα κατὰ φύσιν αὐτῷ ὄντα· οὐ γὰρ περὶ τῆς δεσποτείας τῶν κτισμάτων τοῦτό φησιν· πλὴν ἡνίκα ὀνομάζει ἡ γραφὴ πατέρα, τὸ σύμ παν τῆς ἐν ἁγίᾳ τριάδι νοουμένης καὶ προσκυνουμένης θεότητος ση μαίνει.
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.
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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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