Matthew 21:7–9
The colt is led when two disciples have been sent from Christ; for two orders serve him for this — prophets and apostles — through whom the nations are netted into faith. And it is led from a village, so that from this too he may show the rustic mind of the nations, not raised in the law, but living rather carelessly and wildly — yet it changed toward the gentler, for it came under Christ teaching these things. And children, raising “palm branches,” (Matthew 21:7–9) were running before him and composing the doxology together with the disciples, so that through them too we may see the new people from the nations as if written on a tablet. For it is written: “And a people being created will praise the Lord.” (Psalm 102:18)
Greek
Ἄγεται ὁ πῶλος δύο μαθητῶν ἀπεσταλμένων παρὰ Χριστοῦ· ὑπηρετοῦσι γὰρ πρὸς τοῦτο αὐτῷ δύο τάγματα, προφῆται καὶ ἀπόστολοι, δι' ὧν σαγηνεύονται εἰς πίστιν τὰ ἔθνη. καὶ ἄγεται ἀπό τινος κώμης, ἵνα καὶ ἐκ τούτου τὴν ἄγροικον τῶν ἐθνῶν καταδείξῃ φρένα οὐκ ἐν νόμῳ τεθραμμένων, ζησάντων δὲ μᾶλλον ἀπημελημένως καὶ ἀγρίως, πλὴν μετέστη ἐπὶ τὸ ἡμερώτερον· γέγονε γὰρ ὑπὸ Χριστῷ ταῦτα διδά σκοντι. καὶ παῖδες δὲ "βάϊα φοινίκων" ἀνατείναντες προέτρεχον αὐτοῦ καὶ ὁμοῦ τοῖς μαθηταῖς τὴν δοξολογίαν συνετίθεσαν, ἵνα καὶ δι' αὐτῶν τὸν νέον καὶ ἐξ ἐθνῶν ὥσπερ ἐν πίνακι γεγραμμένον ἴδωμεν λαόν· γέ γραπται γάρ· "καὶ λαὸς ὁ κτιζόμενος αἰνέσει τὸν κύριον".
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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)
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