Matthew 9:3–7
The word went out and the wonder followed. Why then did he also say that the Son of Man forgives sins while a God-sign was being done? To show that he brought the authority of divinity down into human nature through the indivisible union with it.
“For if I also became man,” he says, “being God the Word, and through the economy I live and move about on earth, still I accomplish wonders beyond speech and grant forgiveness of sins. I did not take away any property of divinity or lessen it by becoming, unchangeably and truly, Son of Man according to flesh on earth.” (Matthew 9:3–7)
And a little later: he says “on earth” economically, to show that even having become man and appeared on earth he was God by nature. He commanded the paralytic to carry the bed and go home, so that through him he might also confirm to those absent what had happened to him.
Greek
Ἐξῆλθε τὸ ῥῆμα καὶ τὸ θαῦμα ἐπηκολούθησεν. διὰ τί δὲ καὶ υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου εἶπεν ἀφιέναι ἁμαρτίας ἐπιτελουμένης θεοση μείας; ἢ ἵνα δείξῃ, ὅτι κατήγαγεν εἰς τὴν ἀνθρωπίνην φύσιν τὴν τῆς θεότητος ἐξουσίαν διὰ τὴν ἀδιαίρετον πρὸς αὐτὴν ἕνωσιν· εἰ γὰρ καὶ ἄνθρωπος, φησίν, γέγονα θεὸς λόγος ὑπάρχων καὶ διὰ τὴν οἰκονο μίαν ἐπὶ γῆς πολιτεύομαί τε καὶ ἀναστρέφομαι, ἀλλ' οὐδὲν ἧττον τὰ πέρα λόγου ἀποτελῶ θαύματα καὶ ἄφεσιν δωροῦμαι ἁμαρτημάτων· οὐ γὰρ ἀφειλάμην τι τῶν τῆς θεότητος ἰδιωμάτων ἢ ἐμείωσα τῷ γενέσθαι με ἀτρέπτως καὶ ἀληθῶς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς κατὰ σάρκα υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου. καὶ μετ' ὀλίγα· οἰκονομικῶς δὲ λέγει ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ἵνα δείξῃ, ὅτι καὶ ἄνθρωπος γεγονὼς καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ὀφθεὶς θεὸς ἦν κατὰ φύσιν. ἐκέλευσε δὲ τῷ παραλυτικῷ βαστάσαι τὴν κλίνην καὶ ἀπελθεῖν οἴκαδε, ἵνα δι' αὐτοῦ καὶ <πρὸς> τοὺς ἀπόντας πιστώσηται τὸ γεγονὸς ἐπ' αὐτῷ.
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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