Matthew 5:23
Saying, “If you offer your gift,” (Matthew 5:23–24) and what follows, makes this clear: God invented a way of salvation and an escape from punishment for sinners — a change of mind — and he says healing the one who was grieved will overturn punishment.
Since the one who does not love his brother does not love the Lord, he reasonably does not accept the one who approaches while his brother is in grief, as one not truly coming to him.
Greek
Τὸ εἰπεῖν ἐὰν προσφέρῃς τὸ δῶρόν σου καὶ ἑξῆς τοῦτο δηλοῖ, ὅτι τρόπον σωτηρίας καὶ διαφυγὴν τιμωρίας τοῖς ἁμαρτάνουσιν ἐφεῦρεν ὁ θεὸς τὴν μετάγνωσιν, καὶ τὴν τοῦ λελυπημένου θεραπείαν ἀνατροπὴν ἔσεσθαι τιμωρίας φησίν. ἐπειδὴ ὁ μὴ ἀγαπῶν τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ, οὐκ ἀγαπᾷ τὸν κύριον, εἰκότως τὸν ὄντα ἐν λύπῃ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ οὐ προσδέ χεται ὡς μὴ ἀληθῶς αὐτῷ προσιόντα.
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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