Matthew 24:1–3
Some were showing Christ the great works in the temple and the adornment of the offerings; for they supposed he would marvel with them at what was seen — though he is God and has heaven as his throne. He sets aside talk about those things, but has foretold that it will fall from its foundations in due times, when the Roman army brings it to that end and all Jerusalem exacts from Israel the penalties for killing the Lord. For after the Savior’s cross these things happened to them to suffer, yet they did not understand the force of what was said. They supposed he was weaving words about the completion of the age. So they asked when these things would be, and what the sign would be when it was about to happen (Matthew 24:1–3).
Greek
Ἐπεδείκνυόν τινες τῷ Χριστῷ τὰς ἐν τῷ ναῷ μεγαλουργίας καὶ τὸν τῶν ἀναθημάτων κόσμον· ᾠήθησαν γάρ, ὅτι θαυμάσει σὺν αὐτοῖς τὰ ὁρώμενα καίτοι θεὸς ὢν καὶ ἔχων θρόνον τὸν οὐρανόν. ὁ δὲ ἀφίησι μὲν τὸν περὶ αὐτῶν λόγον, προμεμήνυκε δέ, ὅτι ἐκ βάθρων πεσεῖται κατὰ καιροὺς κατακομιζούσης εἰς τοῦτο αὐτὸν τῆς Ῥωμαίων στρατιᾶς καὶ ἅπασαν τὴν Ἰερουσαλὴμ τὰς τῆς κυριοκτονίας δίκας ἐξαιτούσης τὸν Ἰσραήλ· μετὰ γάρ τοι τὸν τοῦ σωτῆρος σταυρὸν ταῦτα συνέβη παθεῖν αὐτούς, οἱ δὲ οὐ συνίεσαν τῶν λεγομένων τὴν δύναμιν. ᾠήθησαν δὲ τοὺς περὶ συντελείας τοῦ αἰῶνος λόγους ἐξυφαίνειν αὐτόν. ἤροντο δὴ οὖν πότε ταῦτα ἔσονται, καὶ τί τὸ σημεῖον, ὅταν μέλλῃ γίνεσθαι.
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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