Fragments on Matthew · §242 · Cyril of Alexandria

Matthew 24:29

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How will they not shudder? For as heaven and earth are re-elemented toward what seems good to God (it is not possible to say something precise in such matters), the sun and the moon will be darkened, and the stars will fall like flowers, while the one who created them re-elements them again as he wills; the elements themselves will also be disturbed. For as humanity is renewed, the creation made because of the human is also recapitulated and co-created (Matthew 24:29).

Greek

Πῶς οὐ φρίξουσιν; ἀναστοιχειουμένων γὰρ οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς πρὸς τὸ δοκοῦν τῷ θεῷ (ἀκριβὲς γάρ τι λέγειν ἐν τοῖς τοιούτοις οὐκ ἔνι) ὁ μὲν ἥλιος καὶ ἡ σελήνη ἀμαυρωθήσονται, τὰ δὲ ἄστρα ὡς ἄνθη πε σεῖται τοῦ δημιουργήσαντος αὐτὰ πάλιν μεταστοιχειοῦντος, καθὼς θέ λει, θορυβηθήσονται καὶ αὐτὰ τὰ στοιχεῖα· ἀνακαινιζομένης γὰρ τῆς ἀνθρωπότητος ἀνακεφαλαιοῦται καὶ συνανακτίζεται καὶ ἡ διὰ τὸν ἄν θρωπον δημιουργηθεῖσα κτίσις.

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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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