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Fragments on Matthew · §46

Matthew 5:25–26

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The quadrans means a fourth of the hin. In Hebrew speech it is two obols, which Luke clarifies by naming it a “lepton.” (Matthew 5:25–26)

So let us be freed from the enemy and avenger — that is, the devil — while we are still on this road, and from the passions of dishonor, which are our adversaries. No one else is our adversary unless we make ourselves so through these things, and unless conscience condemns us for despising its reminder.

Otherwise we will be handed over to God, the judge of all, convicted by conscience. He will hand us to the exactors — the punishing angels — and we will be charged penalties for every fault, small and great (Luke 12:59).

Greek

Ὁ μέντοι κοδράντης σημαίνει τὸ τέταρτον τοῦ ἲν μέτρου. οὗτος κατὰ τὴν Ἑβραίων φωνὴν δύο ἐστὶν ὀβολοί, 5 ὅπερ ὁ Λουκᾶς σαφηνίσας "λεπτὸν" ὠνόμασεν. ἡμεῖς δὲ ἀπαλλαγῶμεν καὶ τοῦ ἐχθροῦ καὶ ἐκδικη τοῦ, ἤγουν τοῦ διαβόλου, ἕως ἐσμὲν ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ ταύτῃ, καὶ τῶν τῆς ἀτιμίας παθῶν, ἅτινα ἀντίδικοι ἡμῶν εἰσιν· οὐδεὶς γὰρ ἡμῶν ἕτερος ἀντί δικος, ἐὰν μὴ ἡμεῖς ἑαυτῶν διὰ τούτων γενώμεθα ἀντίδικοι καὶ μὴ ἡ συνείδησις καταγινώσκῃ ἡμῶν ὡς καταφρονούντων τῆς ὑπομνήσεως αὐτῆς, μήποτε παραδοθῶμεν τῷ κριτῇ πάντων θεῷ ὑπὸ τῆς συν ειδήσεως ἐλεγχθέντες· ὁ δὲ "παραδώσει τοῖς πράκτορσιν", ἤγουν τοῖς κολασταῖς ἀγγέλοις, καὶ ἀπαιτηθησόμεθα τὰς ἐπὶ παντὶ πλημμελήματι δίκας, μικρῷ τε καὶ μεγάλῳ.

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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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