Matthew 19:29
So that no one may think what was said fits only the disciples, he widened the word to all who do the like. Even if the rest will not obtain the same things as the disciples, they will still have, instead of kin according to the flesh, intimacy with God and brotherhood with the holy — he means the elders and elder women of the church, whom they had through love as kin, beloved by disposition, loving far more than fleshly kin, from whom they also received money to manage as they wish, with the goods to come also stored up for them — and instead of fields, paradise, and instead of houses of stone, the Jerusalem above, mother of the firstborn.
Note that even if the rest do not obtain the same as the disciples, they will nonetheless have, instead of fleshly kin, intimacy with God and brotherhood toward the holy city, mother of the firstborn (Matthew 19:29).
Greek
Ἵνα μή τις οἰηθῇ ἐπὶ μόνων τῶν μαθητῶν ἁρμόζειν τὸ εἰρη μένον, ἐπεπλάτυνεν ἐπὶ πάντας τὸν λόγον τοὺς τὰ ὅμοια ποιοῦντας· εἰ γὰρ καὶ μὴ τῶν αὐτῶν τοῖς μαθη ταῖς τεύξονται οἱ λοιποί, ἀλλ' οὖν ἕξουσιν ἀντὶ μὲν τῶν κατὰ σάρκα συγγενῶν τὴν πρὸς θεὸν οἰκειότητα καὶ τὴν ἀδελφότητα τὴν πρὸς τοὺς ἁγίους (ἤτοι τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους καὶ πρεσβύτιδας τῆς ἐκκλησίας λέγει, οὓς ἔσχον δι' ἀγάπην ὡς συγγενεῖς, τοὺς κατὰ διάθεσιν ἀγαπητούς, τοὺς πολλῷ μᾶλλον τῶν κατὰ σάρκα συγ γενῶν ἀγαπῶντας, παρ' ὧν καὶ χρή ματα ἐδέξαντο, ἵνα διοικήσωσιν αὐτὰ ὡς βούλονται, ἀποκειμένων αὐτοῖς καὶ τῶν ἐσομένων ἀγαθῶν), ἀντὶ δὲ τῶν ἀγρῶν τὸν παράδεισον καὶ ἀντὶ οἴκων τῶν ἐκ λίθων τὴν ἄνω Ἰερουσαλήμ, τὴν τῶν πρωτο τόκων μητέρα. Ἐπισημαντέον, ὅτι κἂν μὴ τῶν αὐτῶν τοῖς μαθηταῖς οἱ λοιποὶ ἐπι τύχωσιν, ἀλλ' ὅμως ἕξουσιν ἀντὶ μὲν τῶν κατὰ σάρκα συγγενῶν πρὸς θεὸν οἰκειότητα καὶ τὴν ἀδελφό τητα τὴν πρὸς ἁγίαν πόλιν τὴν τῶν πρωτοτόκων μητέρα.
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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