Matthew 21:37

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Are you too sons of God the Father? Does the lot descend to you by nature if you put the heir out of the way? How will you become lords of what you desire? And how is that not worth laughing at? For Christ, as Son and essential heir of God the Father’s dignities, became man and was calling those who believe in him into share of his own kingdom; but the Hebrews wanted to have the kingdom alone — which was both impossible and ignorant. Notice here that after the household servants the Son is sent, not as one counted among servants, but as true Son and therefore Lord. Even if he wore a slave’s form economically, he was still God and true Son of God the Father, and had lordship by nature (Matthew 21:37) (Philippians 2:7).

Greek

Ἆρα καὶ ὑμεῖς υἱοὶ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ πατρός; ἆρα φυσικῶς ὁ κλῆρος εἰς ὑμᾶς καταβαίνει, ἂν ἐκ μέσου ποιήσητε τὸν κληρονόμον; πῶς γε νήσεσθε κύριοι ὧν ἐρᾶτε; κἀκεῖνο πῶς οὐ γέλωτος ἄξιον; ὁ μὲν γὰρ Χριστὸς ὡς υἱὸς καὶ τῶν τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ πατρὸς ἀξιωμάτων οὐσιωδῶς κληρονόμος γενόμενος ἄνθρωπος εἰς κοινωνίαν τῆς ἑαυτοῦ βασιλείας ἐκάλει τοὺς πιστεύοντας εἰς αὐτόν, οἱ δὲ Ἑβραῖοι μόνοι τὴν βασιλείαν ἔχειν ἤθελον, ὅπερ ἦν ἀμήχανόν τε καὶ ἀμαθές. ἐπιτήρησον δὲ ἐν τού τοις, ὅτι μετὰ τοὺς οἰκέτας ὁ υἱὸς πέμπεται ὡς οὐ τελῶν ἐν οἰκέταις, ἀλλ' ὡς υἱὸς ἀληθινὸς καὶ διὰ τοῦτο κύριος· εἰ καὶ ἐφόρεσε γὰρ δούλου μορφὴν οἰκονομικῶς, ἀλλ' ἦν καὶ οὕτω θεὸς καὶ υἱὸς ἀληθινὸς τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ πατρὸς καὶ φυσικὴν ἔχων τὴν κυριότητα.

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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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