Matthew 13:12–13
In the gentle and eager to learn who already have knowledge, the divine light will settle even more richly than before. But in those who had a spark of intelligible light and turned it into senseless “knowledge,” even the small brightness they have will be quenched — which is what the Jews suffered by not believing in Christ. They had a small leading light from the law guiding them toward knowledge of God; but because they acted impiously toward Christ, they were deprived of that too.
The Lord makes clearer what he meant by “to the one who has it will be given, and from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken,” (Matthew 13:12–13) by adding: “For this reason I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand.”
In teachable people well disposed to receive divine words, the Holy Spirit will settle, increasing the gifts in them. But in those who possessed a spark of light and neglected it, even the least they once had will wholly be quenched and taken from them. That is what the Jews suffered: they received light from the law and did not multiply it; and when the truth came, growing dull-eyed toward it, they were stripped of what they had possessed.
Greek
Τοῖς ἐπιεικέσι καὶ φιλομαθέ σιν ἔχουσι γνῶσιν ἐνοικισθήσεται τὸ θεῖον φῶς πλουσιώτερον ἢ πά λαι, τοῖς δὲ 18 ἐσχηκόσι σπινθῆρα φωτὸς νοητοῦ, εἰς ἀσύνετον δὲ τρα πεῖσι γνῶσιν σβεσθήσεται καὶ αὐτὸ τὸ μικρὸν ὃ ἔχουσι σέλας, ὅπερ πεπόνθασιν Ἰουδαῖοι εἰς Χριστὸν μὴ πιστεύσαντες· εἶχον γὰρ μικρὰν φωταγωγίαν ἐκ τοῦ νόμου ὁδη γοῦσαν αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ τὴν εἰς θεὸν γνῶσιν. ἐπειδὴ δὲ εἰς Χριστὸν δε δυσσεβήκασιν, καὶ αὐτῆς ἐστερή θησαν. ὁ μέντοι κύριος σαφέστερον δεικνὺς τί ἐστιν ὅπερ εἶπεν, ὅτι τῷ ἔχοντι δοθήσεται, ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ μὴ ἔχοντος καὶ ὃ ἔχει ἀρθή σεται ἀπ' αὐτοῦ, ἐπάγει· διὰ τοῦτο ἐν παραβολαῖς αὐτοῖς λαλῶ, ὅτι βλέποντες οὐ βλέ πουσιν καὶ ἀκούοντες οὐκ ἀκούουσιν οὐδὲ συνιοῦσιν. Τοῖς εὐμαθέσιν ἀνθρώποις καὶ καλῶς διακειμένοις πρὸς παρα δοχὴν θείων λόγων ἐνοικισθήσεται τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον αὐξάνον ἐν αὐτοῖς τὰ χαρίσματα, τοῖς δὲ σπιν θῆρα φωτὸς κεκτημένοις καὶ τού του ἀμελήσασι σβεσθήσεται πάν τως καὶ ἀρθήσεται ἀπ' αὐτῶν καὶ τὸ σμικρότατον, ὃ πρότερον εἶχον. τοῦτο δὲ Ἰουδαῖοι πεπόνθασι λα βόντες φῶς ἐκ τοῦ νόμου καὶ μὴ πολυπλασιάσαντες, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς ἀληθείας ἐλθούσης ἀμβλυωπήσαν τες πρὸς αὐτὴν ἀφῃρέθησαν, ὃ ἐκέκτηντο.
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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)
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