Matthew 21:42
Blessed David marveled at this corner (Matthew 21:42) — that is, the meeting of the two peoples into one — saying, “This was from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes.” (Psalm 118:22–23) So the stone is saving for the corner made by him, but crushing and ruin for those who remained outside this intelligible and spiritual concurrence. For some, Christ is “a rock of stumbling and a stone of scandal.” (1 Peter 2:8)
Greek
Ταύτην τεθαύμακε τὴν γωνίαν ἤτοι τῶν δύο λαῶν τὴν εἰς ταὐτό τητα σύνοδον ὁ μακάριος ∆αβὶδ λέγων· "παρὰ κυρίου ἐγένετο αὕτη, καὶ ἔστιν θαυμαστὴ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς ἡμῶν". οὐκοῦν σωτήριος μὲν ὁ λίθος τῇ γωνίᾳ τῇ παρ' αὐτοῦ γενομένῃ, συντριβὴ δὲ καὶ ὄλεθρος τοῖς ἔξω μεμενηκόσι τῆς νοητῆς καὶ πνευματικῆς ταύτης συνδρομῆς· τοῖς μέν ἐστιν ὁ Χριστὸς "πέτρα προσκόμματος καὶ λίθος σκανδάλου".
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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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