Matthew 9:2
The Lord did not look at the faith of the paralyzed man, but at the faith of those who brought him. There are times when one person is healed through another’s faith, and the holy writing of the Gospels is full of such cases. Seeing their faith, he does not show their labor vain, but says “child” (Matthew 9:2) — either to him as one who also believed, or according to the word of creation.
He called the paralytic “child” by the word of creation, or as one who had believed in him and known him as Lord and Creator.
Greek
Οὐ τὴν πίστιν τοῦ παραλε λυμένου ὁ κύριος ἐθεάσατο, ἀλλὰ τῶν κομισάντων· ἔστι γὰρ ὅτε καὶ ἄλλος δι' ἄλλων πίστιν θεραπεύεται καὶ πλήρης τούτων ἡ ἱερὰ τῶν εὐαγγελίων γραφή. θεασάμενος οὖν τὴν πίστιν αὐτῶν οὐ μάταιον αὐτῶν ἀποφαίνει τὸν πόνον, ἀλλά φησιν τέκνον τὸ τέκνον ἢ καὶ αὐτῷ ὡς πιστεύσαντι ἢ κατὰ τὸν τῆς δημιουργίας λόγον. Τέκνον ἐκάλεσε τὸν παρα λυτικὸν τῷ τῆς δημιουργίας λόγῳ ἢ ὡς πιστεύσαντα εἰς αὐτὸν καὶ γνόντα αὐτὸν κύριον καὶ δημιουρ γόν.
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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