Matthew 6:25
The soul is more honorable than the body’s essence, as God’s image and inbreathing. The body is its instrument and co-worker toward what is finest. So we must take thought for both body and soul together — for the body only so far as is enough for it and does not hinder the soul.
To the soul one must always give what is its own, care for it in every way, and draw it up through the virtues toward its creative cause (Matthew 6:25).
Greek
Ἡ ψυχὴ τῆς τοῦ σώματος οὐσίας τιμιωτέρα ἐστὶν ὡς εἰκὼν θεοῦ καὶ ἐμφύσημα, τὸ δὲ σῶμα ὄργανόν ἐστιν αὐτῆς καὶ συνεργὸν πρὸς τὰ κάλλιστα. χρὴ οὖν ἡμᾶς ἀμφοτέρων φροντίζειν τοῦ τε σώματος ἅμα καὶ τῆς ψυχῆς καὶ τοῦ μὲν σώματος ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον, ἐφ' ὅσον ἱκανὸν αὐτῷ καὶ μὴ ἐμποδίζεσθαι τὴν ψυχήν· αὐτῇ δὲ δοτέον ἀεὶ τὰ οἰκεῖα καὶ ἐπιμελητέον παντοίως καὶ ἀνακτέον διὰ τῶν ἀρετῶν πρὸς τὴν αἰτίαν αὐτῆς τὴν δημιουργικήν.
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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