Matthew 10:27
About the apostles’ boldness in preaching, marvelous Habakkuk also foretold: “They will open their bridles like a poor man eating in secret” (Matthew 10:27) — that is, the apostles who at first scarcely spoke to a few, and in secret, fed by the faith of believers, later broke the bridle of fear set on them and will fill the world under heaven with their own voice. For now — since — what does he say?
Greek
Περὶ τῆς ἐν τῷ κηρύσσειν παρρησίας τῶν ἀποστόλων καὶ ὁ θαυ μάσιος Ἀμβακοὺμ προηγόρευσε· "διανοίξουσι" γάρ, φησίν, "χαλινοὺς αὐτῶν ὡς" ὁ "ἔσθων πτωχὸς λάθρα", τοῦτ' ἔστιν οἱ πρότερον μόλις τισὶ καὶ λάθρα προσλαλοῦντες ἀπόστολοι καὶ τῇ τῶν πιστευόντων πίστει τρεφόμενοι οὗτοι μετὰ ταῦτα διαρρήξαντες τὸν ἐπιτεθέντα αὐτοῖς τοῦ φόβου χαλινὸν τῆς ἑαυτῶν φωνῆς κατεμπλήσουσι τὴν ὑπ' οὐρανόν. τέως δὲ ἐπειδή–τί γάρ φησιν.
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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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