Matthew 21:1–3
He says the disciples are two — that is, apostles and evangelists — who became Christ’s co-workers and servants for this. Or he also means angels who serve Christ for our ransom, “ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” (John 1:51) And if the one who bound them with the cords of sins asks, “What are you doing?” (Matthew 21:1–3) still, unable to withstand the Savior’s words, he will fall silent — not willingly, because of the excess of power. In this the call is shown to be divine.
Greek
∆ύο δέ φησιν εἶναι τοὺς μαθητάς, ὅ ἐστιν ἀποστόλους καὶ εὐαγ γελιστάς, οἵτινες γεγόνασιν συνεργοὶ καὶ ὑπηρέται Χριστοῦ πρὸς τοῦτο. ἢ καὶ εὐαγγέλους λέγει τοὺς ὑπηρετοῦντας Χριστῷ πρὸς ἡμετέραν λύτρωσιν "ἀναβαίνοντας καὶ καταβαίνοντας ἐπὶ τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου". εἰ δὲ ἐρωτήσει ὁ καταδήσας αὐτοὺς ταῖς σειραῖς τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν "τί ποιεῖτε", ἀλλ' οὖν οὐ δυνάμενος ἀντιστῆναι τοῖς τοῦ σωτῆρος λόγοις σιωπήσεται οὐχ ἑκὼν διὰ τὸ ὑπερβάλλον τῆς δυνάμεως· θεία δὲ ἡ κλῆσις ἐν τούτῳ δεδήλωται.
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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