Matthew 12:34–35
When he says “treasure,” he points to the mass of what lies in the soul. And so that some may not say humans are wicked by nature, he showed this in the Pharisees’ case: that the same one person can sometimes become good and sometimes wicked, saying, “The good person speaks from the overflow of his heart,” (Matthew 12:34–35) and likewise the wicked.
Greek
Ὅταν λέγῃ θησαυρόν, τὸ πλῆθος ἐνδείκνυται τῶν ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ κειμένων. ἵνα δὲ μὴ εἴπωσί τινες ὅτι φύσει πεφύκασι πονηροὶ οἱ ἄν θρωποι, ἐπὶ τῶν Φαρισαίων τοῦτο ἐδήλωσεν, ὅτι δυνατὸν τὸν αὐτὸν καὶ ἕνα ἄνθρωπόν ποτε μὲν ἀγαθὸν γενέσθαι, ποτὲ δὲ κακόν, λέγων· ὁ ἀγαθὸς ἄνθρωπος ἐκ τοῦ περισσεύματος τῆς καρδίας αὐτοῦ λαλεῖ, ὁμοίως καὶ ὁ κακός.
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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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