Matthew 1:16
Matthew does not say “through whom” (Matthew 1:16) he was born, but “out of whom.” (Galatians 4:4) That overthrows Apollinaris, who claimed Christ passed through the virgin as through a tube and took nothing from her.
The evangelist says Jesus was born not through her but out of her — that is, from her all-holy blood. The apostle speaks the same way: “God sent his Son, born of a woman,” not through a woman.
Greek
Τὸ δὲ μὴ εἰπεῖν δι' ἧς ἐγεννήθη ἴσως, ἀλλὰ ἐξ ἧς, ἀνατρέπει τὴν αἵρεσιν Ἀπολιναρίου λέγοντος ὡς διὰ σωλῆνος τῆς παρθένου τὸν Χριστὸν διελθεῖν καὶ μηδὲν ἐξ αὐτῆς προσλαβεῖν. ὁ γὰρ εὐαγγελιστὴς οὐ δι' αὐτῆς φησι γεννηθῆναι τὸν Ἰησοῦν, ἀλλ' ἐξ αὐτῆς, τοῦτ' ἔστιν ἐκ τῶν πανάγνων αὐτῆς αἱμάτων· τοιοῦτον καὶ τὸ τοῦ ἀποστόλου· "ἀπέστειλε" γάρ φησιν "ὁ θεὸς τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ, γενόμενον ἐκ γυναικός", ἀλλ' οὐ διὰ γυναικός.
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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