Matthew 26:39
By “cup” in these things he calls the stupefaction through death and the drunkenness that as it were puts one to sleep toward sleep. Declining to drink it — that is, not making suffering very much according to pleasure — accuses the impiety of those who crucified him. For they may not surely say, “Since he chose to suffer, we are rather helpers of the will” (Matthew 26:39); for the declining will convict them of choosing to speak falsely.
Greek
Ποτήριον ἐν τούτοις τὴν διὰ τοῦ θανάτου κατακάρωσιν ἀποκαλεῖ καὶ τὴν οἱονεὶ πρὸς ὕπνον κατακοιμίζουσαν μέθην. τό γε μὴν παρ αιτεῖσθαι πιεῖν αὐτό, τοῦτ' ἔστιν τὸ μὴ σφόδρα καθ' ἡδονὴν ποιεῖσθαι τὸ παθεῖν, τῆς τῶν σταυρωσάντων δυσσεβείας κατηγορεῖ· οὐ γὰρ δήπου φαῖεν ὡς ἐπείπερ εἵλετο παθεῖν ὑπουργοὶ μᾶλλον ἡμεῖς τοῦ θελήματος· διελέγξει γὰρ αὐτοὺς ψευδομυθεῖν ἑλομένους ἡ παραίτησις.
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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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