Matthew 5:18
In place of fleshly worship the Lord introduced worship “in spirit and truth.” (Matthew 5:18) Perhaps what the Jews were not even doing fleshly, Christ’s disciples now do spiritually. That is why he says one iota or one horn will not pass from the law until all happens.
Clearly the Jews did not do all of it — or if they did, they stopped, no longer allowed to do those things, partly through fear of kings, and partly because the temple had been destroyed, the only place where the sacrifices had to be completed (John 4:23).
Greek
Ἀντὶ τῆς σαρκικῆς λατρείας εἰσήγαγεν ὁ κύριος τὴν "ἐν πνεύματι καὶ ἀληθείᾳ"· καὶ τάχα ἅπερ οὐδὲ σαρκικῶς ἐποίουν οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι, ταῦτα καὶ νῦν πνευματικῶς οἱ Χριστοῦ μαθηταὶ ποιοῦσιν. διό φησιν· ἰῶτα ἓν ἢ μία κεραία οὐ μὴ παρέλθῃ ἐκ τοῦ νόμου, ἕως ἂν πάντα γένηται. δηλονότι οὐ πάντα ἐποίησαν οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι, ἢ κἂν ἐποίησαν, ἐπαύ σαντο τοῦ ποιεῖν μηκέτι συγχωρούμενοι ποιῆσαι αὐτά, πῇ μὲν διὰ τὸν φόβον τῶν βασιλέων, πῇ δὲ καὶ τὸ καταλελύσθαι τὸν ναόν, ἐν ᾧ μόνῳ ἔδει τὰς θυσίας ἐπιτελεῖσθαι.
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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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