Fragmenta in Matthaeum
The deceitful do not approach to learn, and it is untimely to unfold the deeper things (Mt 21:23). A man had two sons, the first representing the Gentiles, whom God, the common Father, called first. For He gave them the teachable and natural law, sowing it in their minds, and gave them preachers of the things seen, but their orderliness of soul was mixed with wood and stones; for they said to the wood, 'You are my Father' (Mt 21:31). Therefore, they did not endure, saying they did not know the Lord (Mt 21:30). These, then, repented later and went to the vineyard. The first son, representing the Gentiles, refused, and the Father approached the second son, that is, Israel, who…
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Fragmenta in Matthaeum 1 Mt 21, 23 Τοῖς δολεροῖς μὴ προσιοῦσιν εἰς τὸ μαθεῖν ἄκαιρον ἀναπτύσσειν τὰ βαθύτερα. 2 μτ 21, 28–32 Ἄνθρωπός τις εἶχεν δύο υἱοὺς καὶ ὁ μὲν πρῶτός ἐστιν τὰ ἔθνη, οὓς ὁ θεὸς ὁ κοινὸς πατὴρ πρώτους ἐκάλεσεν· τὸν γὰρ διδακτὸν καὶ φυσικὸν νόμον ταῖς διανοίαις ἐγκατασπείρας ἔδωκε κήρυκας τὰ ὁρώμενα, ἀλλ' ἡ τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτῶν εὐταξία συνεχύθη ἐπὶ ξύλα καὶ λίθους· «εἶπαν «, γὰρ «τῷ ξύλῳ· πατήρ μου εἶ σύ «. διὸ οὐκ ἠνέσχοντο κωλυόμενοι· εἶπον γὰρ οὐκ οἴδαμεν τὸν κύριον. οὗτοι οὖν μεταμεληθέντες ὕστερον ἀπῆλθον εἰς τὸν ἀμπελῶνα. τοῦ δὲ πρώτου παραιτησαμένου προσῆλθεν ὁ πατὴρ τῷ δευτέρῳ, τοῦτ' ἔστιν τῷ Ἰσραήλ, ὅστις