Matthew 28:18
Still economically, and in a more human way, he said “it was given to me.” (Matthew 28:18) Yet he wants it understood that he has authority over all as God, and that, leaving the measure of the emptying, he ran back into the glory innate and always present to him, and is confessed God and Lord of all even with the flesh. So when he says “it was given to me,” it is not as if he first received it when he became human, but as receiving, in the rank of a human, what he always had because he exists from the Father and is God by nature.
Greek
Οἰκονομικῶς ἔτι καὶ ἀνθρωπινώτερον ἔφη τὸ ἐδόθη μοι· πλὴν βούλεται νοεῖσθαι, ὅτι τὴν κατὰ πάντων ἔχει ἐξουσίαν ὡς θεὸς καὶ ἀφεὶς τὸ τῆς κενώσεως μέτρον εἰς τὴν ἔμφυτον καὶ ἀεὶ προσοῦσαν αὐτῷ δόξαν ἀνέδραμεν καὶ μετὰ σαρκὸς θεὸς τῶν ὅλων καὶ κύριος ὁμολογούμενος. λοιπὸν οὖν λέγει ἐδόθη μοι οὐχ ὡς πρῶτον λαβών, ὅτε γέγονεν ἄνθρωπος, ἀλλ' ὅπερ εἶχεν ἀεὶ διὰ τὸ ὑπάρχειν ἐκ πατρὸς καὶ φύσει θεὸς ὡς ἐν ἀνθρώπου τάξει δεχόμενος.
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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