Matthew 3:2

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The kingdom of the heavens is justification through faith and sanctification through the Spirit. That is why he also says elsewhere, “The kingdom of the heavens is within you.” (Matthew 3:2) (Luke 17:21)

Greek

Βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν ἡ διὰ πίστεως δικαίωσις καὶ ὁ διὰ πνεύ ματος ἁγιασμός· διὸ καὶ ἀλλαχοῦ· "ἡ βασιλεία" τῶν οὐρανῶν "ἐντὸς ὑμῶν ἐστιν".

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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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