Matthew 11:28

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So the one who has heard the call, drawn near, and clung to the One who commanded rests. “Stand away,” he says, “from a sin-loving mind and love of the flesh, turn to deeds worthy of praise, and draw near to me, so that you may become ‘sharers in the divine nature’ and partakers of the Holy Spirit.” (2 Peter 1:4) He calls all, not only those from Israel, as Creator and Lord of all.

By “those who labor” he means the Jews, who cannot bear the yoke of the law; by “those who are burdened,” the idolaters, weighed down by the devil and heavy with a mass of sins. “So you, Jews,” he says, “lean toward the truth, recognize me as your guardian and master, and take the gain of approaching near. For I release you from slavery under the law, in which you endure much toil — unable to finish it easily, and preparing for yourselves the greatest ‘burden’ of sins, the more you must keep when living in line with the law.” (Matthew 11:28)

Greek

Ὁ οὖν ἀκούσας τῆς κλήσεως καὶ ἐγγίσας καὶ κολληθεὶς τῷ προσ τάξαντι, οὗτος ἀναπαύεται. ἀποστάντες, φησίν, τῆς φιλαμαρτήμονος γνώμης καὶ τῆς φιλοσαρκίας καὶ μετατρεπόμενοι ἐπὶ τὰ ἐπαίνου ἄξια πράγματα ἐγγίσατέ μοι, ἵνα γένησθε "θείας κοινωνοὶ φύσεως" καὶ ἁγίου πνεύματος μέτοχοι. πάντας δὲ καλεῖ καὶ οὐ μόνους τοὺς ἐξ Ἰσραὴλ ὡς πάντων δημιουργὸς καὶ κύριος καὶ κοπιῶντας μὲν λέγει τοὺς Ἰουδαίους τοὺς μὴ ἰσχύοντας βαστάσαι τὸν νομικὸν ζυγόν, πεφορ τισμένους τοὺς εἰδωλολάτρας τοὺς διὰ τοῦ διαβόλου καταφορτισ θέντας καὶ τῷ πλήθει τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν καταβαρυνομένους. ὑμεῖς οὖν, φησίν, ὦ Ἰουδαῖοι, νεύσατε πρὸς τὴν ἀλήθειαν καὶ ἐπίγνωτε ἐμὲ τὸν ὑμέτερον κηδεμόνα καὶ δεσπότην καὶ ἐγγύθεν τῆς προσόδου τὸ κέρδος κομιζόμενοι. ἀπαλλάττω γὰρ ὑμᾶς τῆς ὑπὸ τὸν νόμον δουλείας, ἐν ᾗ πολὺν ὑπομένετε κόπον, οὔτε ῥᾳδίως ἐξανύειν αὐτὸν δυνάμενοι καὶ μέγιστον τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων "τὸ φορτίον" ἑαυτοῖς κατασκευάζοντες, ὅσῳ πλείονα φυλάττειν προσῆκεν ὑμᾶς ἀκόλουθα τῷ νόμῳ διαπραττομένους.

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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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