Cyril of Alexandria: Fragments on Matthew · §92

Matthew 9:20

He shows that with God no one who has an involuntary disease is unclean. That is why the Lord also calls the woman with the hemorrhage near: to lead the typological law over into spiritual contemplation.

Greek

∆ιὰ τῆς ἐπαφῆς ἐποιήσατο τὴν κάθαρσιν δηλῶν, ὅτι καὶ ἡ ἁγία αὐτοῦ σὰρξ χρειώδης ἐστὶ πρὸς ἁγιασμόν· τὸ μὲν γὰρ πνεῦμα καθαίρει, ἡ δὲ τοῦ σώματος κοινω νία ἐμποιεῖ τὸν ἁγιασμόν. Ἁπτόμενος τοῦ λεπροῦ ὁ σωτὴρ ἐθεράπευσεν αὐτὸν δεικνύων ὡς τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἐν αὐτῷ θερα πεύει τὰς νόσους, τὸ δὲ σῶμα τῇ προσψαύσει τὸν ἁγιασμὸν παρέχε ται.

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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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