Matthew 5:29–30
“Eye” (Matthew 5:29–30) and “hand” are understood as the friend. If you love someone as a right eye, and count him useful as a right hand, and he harms your soul, cut them off from you and separate far from them. When you do not save each other but rather both perish together, it is better that, once separated, at least one be saved.
Greek
Ὀφθαλμὸς καὶ χεὶρ νοεῖται ὁ φίλος. ἐὰν γάρ τινα οὕτω φιλῇς ὡς ἐν τάξει ὀφθαλμοῦ δεξιοῦ καὶ χρήσιμον αὐτὸν νομίζῃς ὡς ἐν τάξει δεξιᾶς χειρὸς καὶ βλάπτῃ σου τὴν ψυχήν, ἀπότεμε τούτους ἀπό σου καὶ πόρρω χωρίσθητι ἀπ' αὐτῶν· ὅταν γὰρ μὴ ἀλλήλους σῴζητε, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον ἀμφότεροι προσαπολλύησθε ὄντες ὁμοῦ, συμφέρει χω ρισθέντα κἂν τὸν ἕνα σωθῆναι.
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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