Matthew 3:11
The blessed Baptist joins the Spirit’s meaning with fire’s energy and meaning. He is not saying we will be baptized in fire itself through Christ, but marking the Spirit’s life-giving energy by the figure of fire (Matthew 3:11).
Greek
Συνέδησε δὲ ὁ μακάριος βαπτιστὴς τῇ τοῦ πνεύματος σημασίᾳ τὴν τοῦ πυρὸς ἐνέργειαν καὶ σημασίαν, οὐκ ἐν πυρὶ πάντως βαπτι σθήσεσθαι λέγων ἡμᾶς διὰ Χριστοῦ, ἀλλὰ τὴν τοῦ πνεύματος ἐνέρ γειαν τὴν ζωοποιὸν διὰ τῆς τοῦ πυρὸς σημασίας σημαίνων.
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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