Matthew 22:34–42
Since the Lord was being praised after the Sadducees were shamed and withdrew, the Pharisees, envious at this, came forward, and someone thought very learned in the law among them asks which commandment is great in the law. He supposed Christ was about to cross out Moses’ teaching and set his own beside it, or <to say>, “You shall love the Lord your God — and me,” (Matthew 22:34–42) yoking his own glory to the Father’s glory, and so find a place to cast him into danger as making himself God — or, if he passed over that in silence, to say, “Then I do not accept you as God.”
But the Lord said nothing new, only what is of the law, and having muzzled the Pharisees by this, he himself asks them whose son they think the Christ is.
Greek
Ἐπείπερ καταισχυνθέντων τῶν Σαδδουκαίων καὶ ἀποχωρησάντων ἐπῃνεῖτο ὁ κύριος, ἐπὶ τούτῳ διαφθονούμενοι τούτοις οἱ Φαρισαῖοι 31 ἦλθον εἰς μέσον καὶ νομομαθής τις ἄγαν παρ' αὐτοῖς νομιζόμενος ἐρωτᾷ ποία ἐντολὴ μεγάλη ἐν τῷ νόμῳ, οἰηθεὶς ὅτι μέλλει μὲν τὰ Μω σέως παραγράφεσθαι, παρατιθέναι δὲ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ διδασκαλίαν ἢ <εἰπεῖν> ὅτι ἀγαπήσεις κύριον τὸν θεόν σου καὶ ἐμέ, παραζευγνὺς ἑαυτοῦ τὴν δόξαν τῇ δόξῃ τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ οὕτως εὑρίσκει τόπον τοῦ ἐμβαλεῖν εἰς κίνδυνον ὡς θεοποιοῦντα ἑαυτὸν ἤ, εἰ τοῦτο παρασιωπήσει, λέγειν· οὐκοῦν οὐ προσδέχομαί σε ὡς θεόν. ὁ δὲ κύριος οὐδὲν καινὸν εἰπὼν ἀλλὰ τὰ τοῦ νόμου καὶ ταύτῃ ἐπιστομίσας τοὺς Φαρισαίους ἐρωτᾷ καὶ αὐτὸς αὐτοὺς τίνος υἱὸν νομίζουσιν τὸν Χριστόν.
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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