Matthew 17:22–23
Mixing in the word about the resurrection, he weaves power together with weakness, glory with ingloriousness, the height of divinity with the cheapness of humanity. For he died as man and lived again as God. The disciples are grieved from love toward Christ, even though the resurrection was announced to come soon — because humans grieve more hotly when they hear grievous things and feel those more than the sweetest (Matthew 17:22–23).
Greek
Συναναμίξας τὸν περὶ τῆς ἀναστάσεως λόγον συναναπλέκει τῇ ἀσθενείᾳ τὴν δύναμιν, τῇ ἀδοξίᾳ τὴν δόξαν, τῇ εὐτελείᾳ τῆς ἀνθρω πότητος τὸ τῆς θεότητος ὑψηλόν· ἀπέθανε γὰρ ὡς ἄνθρωπος, ἀνεβίω ὡς θεός. λυποῦνται δὲ οἱ μαθηταὶ διὰ τὴν πρὸς τὸν Χριστὸν ἀγάπην καίτοι γε προαναγγελθείσης τῆς ἀναστάσεως μετ' οὐ πολύ, ἐπείπερ θερμότερον οἱ ἄνθρωποι λυποῦνται ἀκούοντες 24 τῶν λυπηρῶν καὶ πλείω τούτων αἰσθάνονται ἢ τῶν ἡδίστων.
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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