Matthew 14:19
So that by every manner he may be recognized as God by nature, he multiplies the little, and looks into heaven as if asking the blessing from above. He was also doing this economically for our sake. For he himself is the one who fills all things — the blessing from above and from the Father. But so that we may learn, when beginning a table and about to break bread, that we ought to set them in upturned hands, as it were, and bring down the blessing from above upon them, he has become for us economically the beginning and type and way of the deed (Matthew 14:19).
Greek
Ἵνα διὰ τρόπου παντὸς θεὸς ὢν φύσει ἐπιγινώσκηται, πολυ πλασιάζει τὸ βραχύ, βλέπει τε εἰς οὐρανὸν οἷον τὴν ἄνωθεν εὐλογίαν αἰτῶν. ἐποίει δὲ καὶ τοῦτο οἰκονομικῶς δι' ἡμᾶς. ἔστι μὲν γὰρ αὐτὸς ὁ πάντα πληρῶν, ἡ ἄνωθεν καὶ παρὰ πατρὸς εὐλογία. ἵνα δὲ μάθωμεν ἡμεῖς, ὅτι τραπέζης ἀρχόμενοι καὶ μέλλοντες ἄρτους διακλᾶν θεῷ προσά γειν ὀφείλομεν ὑπτίαις ὥσπερ ἐνθέντες χερσὶ καὶ τὴν ἄνωθεν εὐλογίαν ἐπ' αὐτοὺς καταφέρειν, ἀρχὴ καὶ τύπος καὶ ὁδὸς τοῦ πράγματος γέγονεν ἡμῖν οἰκονομικῶς.
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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