Matthew 15:4–6
Though God commands that parents be honored and has hung danger over those who transgress, you command the children not to honor their parents — unless perhaps the children should wish to do this from ambition — but if they ask you for something, to say to them: “Whatever you take from me, know that you are stripping this from God; for I promised to give it as a sacrifice.” (Matthew 15:4–6) God must indeed be preferred to parents; yet <I say> one must also require that honor toward parents be kept. For they ought not, by seeming to pretext gift-bringing to God, to wrong their own parents.
Greek
Τοῦ θεοῦ παραγγέλλοντος τιμᾶν τοὺς γονεῖς καὶ κίνδυνον ἀπαρ τήσαντος τοῖς παραβαίνουσιν ὑμεῖς παραγγέλλετε τοῖς παισὶ μὴ τιμᾶν τοὺς γονεῖς, εἰ μήπου ἄρα οἱ παῖδες ἐκ φιλοτιμίας τοῦτο θελήσουσιν ποιεῖν, ἀλλ' ἐὰν ὑμᾶς αἰτήσωσί τι, λέγειν πρὸς αὐτούς, ὅπερ ἂν ἐξ ἐμοῦ λάβῃς, ἴσθι τοῦτο ἀποστερῶν τοῦ θεοῦ· εἰς θυσίαν γὰρ αὐτὸ ὑπεσχόμην δοῦναι. καὶ δεῖ μὲν τὸν θεὸν προτιμᾶσθαι τῶν γονέων, χρῆναι δὲ <λέγω> καὶ τὴν εἰς γονέας τιμὴν φυλάττεσθαι ἀπαιτεῖν· οὐ γὰρ διὰ τὸ δοκεῖν προφασίζεσθαι δωροφορεῖν θεῷ ὀφείλουσι πλημμελεῖν εἰς τοὺς ἑαυτῶν γονεῖς.
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.
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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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