Matthew 12:39
They are “wicked” (Matthew 12:39) as spending the excellence of the mind not on love of God, but on doing and saying something against God. He called them an “adulteress,” showing both the earlier and the present unbelief. For they neither believed the Father nor stood with Christ himself, who wedded humanity and betrothed it according to humanity through what was said: “And I will betroth you to myself forever.” (Hosea 2:19) They glued themselves to Satan, naming the manner of intelligible fornication. He shows himself again to the Father — the sign of Jonah the prophet.
Greek
Πονηροὶ δὲ ὡς τὸ ἐξαίρετον τῆς διανοίας δαπανῶντες οὐ περὶ φιλοθεΐαν, ἀλλὰ περὶ τὸ δρᾶν τι καὶ λέγειν κατὰ θεοῦ. μοιχαλίδα δὲ ἐκάλεσε καὶ τὴν προτέραν καὶ τὴν παροῦσαν ἀπιστίαν δηλῶν· οὔτε γὰρ τῷ πατρὶ ἐπίστευσαν καὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἀπέστησαν τοῦ νυμφευσαμέ νου τὴν ἀνθρωπότητα καὶ μνηστευσαμένου κατὰ τὴν ἀνθρωπότητα διὰ τὸ εἰρημένον· "καὶ μνηστεύσομαί σε ἐμαυτῷ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα", προσεκολ λήθησαν δὲ τῷ σατανᾷ τὸν τῆς νοητῆς πορνείας τρόπον ἀποκαλοῦντες. δείκνυσιν ἑαυτὸν πάλιν τῷ πατρὶ–τὸ σημεῖον Ἰωνᾶ τοῦ προφήτου.
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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