Matthew 5:44

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Let us love enemies not insofar as they are adulterers or murderers, but insofar as they are human. Sinning belongs to activity, not to essence; that is why sin is not God’s work (Matthew 5:44).

Greek

Ἀγαπῶμεν τοὺς ἐχθροὺς οὐ καθὸ μοιχοί εἰσιν ἢ φονεῖς, ἀλλὰ καθὸ ἄνθρωποι· τὸ γὰρ ἁμαρτάνειν ἐνεργείας ἐστίν, οὐκ οὐσίας· διὸ οὐδὲ ἔργον θεοῦ ἡ ἁμαρτία.

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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.

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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