Matthew 19:29
Luke has also added concerning a wife (Matthew 19:29) — according to Paul, who commands to honor “elder women as mothers, younger as sisters in all purity.” (1 Timothy 5:2) Just as he gives brothers who are not brothers, parents who are not parents, and children who are not children, so also a wife who is not a wife, fulfilling the intimacies in another, clearly spiritual manner, not bodily. Leaving the race according to the flesh is good for the spiritual life; for he says to separate from parents and from a wife when they drag toward impiety. Just as one must despise soul and body for piety, so one must also prefer this to all things.
Greek
Προστέθεικε δὲ ὁ Λουκᾶς καὶ περὶ γυναικός· τοῦτο δὲ κατὰ τὸν Παῦλον κελεύοντα τιμᾶν "πρεσβυτέρας μὲν ὡς μητέρας, νεωτέρας δὲ ὡς ἀδελφὰς ἐν πάσῃ ἁγνείᾳ"· ὥσπερ οὖν ἀδελφοὺς δίδωσι τοὺς οὐκ ἀδελφοὺς καὶ γονεῖς τοὺς οὐ γονεῖς καὶ τέκνα τὰ οὐ τέκνα, οὕτω καὶ γυναῖκα τὴν οὐ γυναῖκα ἑτέρῳ τρόπῳ δηλαδὴ πνευματικῷ τὰς οἰκειότητας ἐκπληρῶν, οὐ σωματικῷ. ἀπολείπειν δὲ τὸ κατὰ σάρκα γένος ἀγαθόν ἐστι διὰ τὴν πνευματικὴν ζωήν· τότε γὰρ λέγει χωρίζεσθαι ἀπὸ γονέων καὶ ἀπὸ γυναικός, ὅταν πρὸς ἀσέβειαν ἕλκωσιν· καθὼς γὰρ δεῖ ψυχῆς καὶ σώματος καταφρονεῖν διὰ θεοσέβειαν, οὕτω χρὴ καὶ πάντων ταύτην προτιμᾶν.
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.
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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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