Matthew 27:44
One of the robbers, sharing the Jews’ lovelessness toward God, belched out the same words as they: “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us.” (Matthew 27:44) But the other, walking the opposite road, is fittingly marvelled at. He has believed in him though hung in so bitter a punishment; he rebukes the Jews’ loose-mouthedness and the co-hung man’s voices; he confessed the sin so that he might appear more just. For he bore witness that Christ was wholly without blame and was an accuser of the crucifiers’ madness; and so he seized the lot of the holy — the enrollment above and in the heavens. Seeing him crucified, he was calling him king; he expected the one in dishonor and suffering to come in God-befitting glory; he seized the faith though not raised in nobility — and he also benefits us, <opening the> heavens <to us>.
Greek
Ὁ μὲν οὖν εἷς τῶν λῃστῶν ταῖς τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἀφιλοθεΐαις συν διαιτώμενος τοὺς αὐτοὺς ἐκείνοις ἠρεύγετο λόγους· εἰ γὰρ "σὺ εἶ", φησίν, "ὁ Χριστός, σῶσον σεαυτὸν καὶ ἡμᾶς". ὅ γε μὴν ἕτερος τὴν ἐναντίαν ἐκείνῳ βαδίζων ὁδὸν εἰκότως θαυμάζεται· πεπίστευκε γὰρ εἰς αὐτὸν καίτοι δίκης ἀπηρτημένης οὕτω πικρᾶς, ἐπιτιμᾷ ταῖς τῶν Ἰου δαίων ἀθυροστομίαις καὶ ταῖς τοῦ συγκρεμαμένου φωναῖς, ὡμολόγησε τὴν ἁμαρτίαν, ἵνα δικαιότερος φανῇ· μεμαρτύρηκε γὰρ Χριστῷ τὸ ἀνυπαίτιον παντελῶς καὶ τῆς τῶν σταυρωσάντων ἀπονοίας κατήγορος ἦν, ταύτῃ τοι τὸν τῶν ἁγίων ἥρπασε κλῆρον, τὴν ἄνω καὶ ἐν οὐρανοῖς ἀπογραφήν. σταυρούμενον γὰρ βλέπων βασιλέα ἐκάλει· τὸν ἐν ἀτιμίᾳ καὶ πάθει προσεδόκησεν ἥξειν ἐν δόξῃ θεοπρεπεῖ, ἥρπασε τὴν πίστιν, καίτοι εὐγενῶς οὐ τεθραμμένος, ὀνίνησι δὲ καὶ ἡμᾶς <ἀνοίγων ἡμῖν τοὺς> οὐρανούς.
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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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