Matthew 16:20
That he is Jesus Christ is shown through this. For he says the things of the economy that were about to be — which had to be proclaimed completely after this — *** so that Christ crucified, by those able to bear witness *** But since it was not accepted that a “prophet <perish> outside Jerusalem” (Luke 13:33) — a destruction that has an analogy to “the one who has lost his soul will find it” — for that reason he goes away into Jerusalem (Matthew 16:20–21).
Greek
–21 Ὅτι Ἰησοῦς Χριστός ἐστιν, δείκνυται διὰ τούτου· φησὶν γὰρ τὰ τῆς οἰκονομίας μέλλειν ἃ ἔδει κηρύττεσθαι τελείως μετὰ τούτου εἶναι *** ἵνα Χριστὸν ἐσταυρωμένον ὑπὸ τῶν μαρτυρεῖν δυναμέ νων *** ἐπεὶ δὲ οὐκ ἐδέχετο "προφήτην <ἀπολέσθαι> ἔξω Ἰερουσαλὴμ" ἀπώλειαν ἀναλογίαν ἔχουσαν πρὸς τὸ "ἀπολέσας τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ, εὑρήσει αὐτήν", διὰ τοῦτο εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα ἄπεισιν.
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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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