Matthew 12:31–32
When someone sinned against a human being, it was possible to beseech God for him; but when humans blasphemed against God, it was not allowed to beseech for them. Yet since the Son of God was seen as man — even though he was God by nature — and was not very clearly recognized by the senseless, he sometimes grants forgiveness to those who sin against him from ignorance; but to those who sin against the Spirit he says perpetual punishment is brought (Matthew 12:31–32).
Greek
Ὅταν τις εἰς ἄνθρωπον ἡμάρτανε, δυνατὸν ἦν ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ παρα καλέσαι τὸν θεόν, ὅταν δὲ εἰς θεὸν οἱ ἄνθρωποι ἐβλασφήμουν, οὐκ ἐξῆν ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν παρακαλέσαι. πλὴν ἐπειδὴ ὡς ἄνθρωπος ὁρώμενος ὁ τοῦ θεοῦ υἱός, εἰ καὶ φύσει θεὸς ἦν, οὐ πάνυ τι τοῖς ἀσυνέτοις ἐγνωρίζετο, δίδωσιν ἔσθ' ὅτε τοῖς ἐξ ἀγνοίας ἁμαρτάνουσιν εἰς αὐτὸν συγγνώμην, τοῖς δὲ εἰς τὸ πνεῦμα διηνεκῆ λέγει τὴν κόλασιν ἐπάγεσθαι.
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.
Witnesses
- 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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