Matthew 22:17
The God of all wanted Israel free of human domination. But because they trampled the divine laws, they came under the hand of those then in power, who laid tributes on them. And tax thereafter — when rule passed over to the Romans (Matthew 22:17).
Greek
Ἤθελε μὲν ὁ τῶν ὅλων θεὸς ἀνθρωπίνης δυναστείας ἐλεύθερον εἶναι τὸν Ἰσραήλ. ἐπειδὴ δὲ τοὺς θείους πεπατήκασι νόμους, γεγόνασιν ὑπὸ χεῖρα τῶν τηνικάδε κεκρατηκότων καὶ δασμοὺς ἐπέθηκαν αὐτοῖς. καὶ φόρου λοιπὸν–Ῥωμαίων μεταπεσόντων ἀρχήν.
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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