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Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew
From the First Book of the Commentary on Matthew.
[5150] This fragment is found in Eusebius, H.E. vi. 25.
[5152] Or, who is commended by Paul.
From the Second Book of the Commentary on the Gospel According to Matthew.
[5153] This fragment, which is preserved in the Philocalia, c. vi., is all that is extant of Book II.
The Unity and Harmony of Scripture.
[5158] Or, fitted.
1. The Parable of the Tares: the House of Jesus.
[5163] Or, by a dispensation.
[5167] Matt. xiii. 39. Or, reading ὅς καλεῖται for ὁ, and at the end of things, there will of necessity be a harvest, which is called the consummation of the age.
[5172] Or, in little details.
3. The Shining of the Righteous. Its Interpretation.
[5176] Prov. vii. 3. Or, on the breadth of the heart.
[5183] ὁρμή; also inclination.
[5184] ἀφορμή.
5. The Field and the Treasure Interpreted.
7. The Parable of the Pearl of Great Price. The Formation and Difference of Pearls.
[5189] Cf.Pliny, Nat. Hist. ix. 54, etc.
8. The Parable Interpreted is the Light of These Views.
9. Christ the Pearl of Great Price.
[5200] Cf. Gal. iv. 1, 2.
[5202] Or, absolutely.
10. The Pearl of the Gospel in Relation to the Old Testament.
11. The Parable of the Drag-Net.
[5206] Valentinus and his followers.
12. The Divine Scriptures Compared to a Net.
13. Relation of Men to Angels.
[5225] Or, anagogical.
[5229] Or, in an exalted sense.
[5232] Or, substance.
15. The Householder and His Treasury.
[5247] Marcion and his school.
[5252] Lev. xxvi. 12; 2 Cor. vi. 16.
16. Parables in Relation to Similitudes. Jesus in His Own Country.
[5264] The Gospel of Peter, of which a fragment was recovered in 1886 and published in 1892.
[5265] Protevangelium Jacobi, c. 9.
[5268] Jos. Ant. xviii. 4.
18. Prophets in Their Country.
[5278] Probably the Ascensio Isaiæ. Cf. Orig. Ep. ad Afric. c. 9.
[5280] Matt. xxiii. 35. Cf. Orig. Ep. ad Afric. c. 9.
19. Relation of Faith and Unbelief to the Supernatural Powers of Jesus.
[5297] Wisdom of Solomon ix. 6.
20. Different Conceptions of John the Baptist.
[5302] Or, none other than.
[5311] The question of John’s relation to Jesus and of the supposed transcorporation, is more fully discussed by Origen in his Commentary on John, book vi. 7, p. 353, sqq.
22. The Dancing of Herodias. The Keeping of Oaths.
[5317] Matt. xi. 17; Luke vii. 32.
[5324] Ex. xii. 46; John xix. 36.
[5329] Isa. liv. 1; Gal. iv. 27.
24. The Diverse Forms of Spiritual Sickness.
[5333] Isa. xxix. 8 (LXX., which has “against mount Zion,” where Origen has “in Jerusalem”).
25. Healing Precedes Participation in the Loaves of Jesus.
1. Introduction to the Feeding of the Five Thousand.
2. Exposition of the Details of the Miracle.
[5346] λόγος προφορικός.
[5347] λόγος ἐνδιάθετος.
[5349] Matt. xiv. 17; Mark vi. 38; Luke ix. 13.
3. The Exposition of Details Continued. The Sitting Down on the Grass. The Division into Companies.
4. The Multitudes and the Disciples Contrasted.
5. The Disciples in Conflict. Jesus Walks Upon the Waters.
6. Interpretation of the Details in the Narrative. Application Thereof to All Disciples.
[5387] Cf. 1 Cor. x. 13.
[5390] The conception of Origen seems to be that opposed to the Divine Trinity there is an evil trinity. Cf. book xii. 20.
7. The Healing of the Sick on the Other Side. The Method of Healing.
[5400] διεσώθησαν.
[5401] σωθῆναι.
[5408] Acts xxi. 26; xviii. 18.
[5409] Cf. Luke xi. 5.
[5413] Exod. xxi. 15; Lev. xx. 9.
[5418] Mark xiv. 5; John xii. 5.
10. The Traditions of the Elders in Collision with Divine Law.
[5424] Or, you, if we read ὑμᾶς.
11. Exposition of the Prophecy of Isaiah Quoted by Jesus.
12. Things Clean and Unclean According to the Law and the Gospel.
[5435] Ecclesiasticus 28.25.
[5440] Cf. Acts xv. 20.
[5442] The text is uncertain.
13. The Offence of the Pharisees.
14. Why the Pharisees Were Not a Plant of God. Teaching of Origen on the “Bread of the Lord.”
[5454] Marcion and his followers.
[5461] Cf. Luke xx. 36.
[5467] Cf. 2 Cor. iii. 7.
[5473] Cf. 1 Tim. iv. 5.
15. Eating with Unwashed Heart Defiles the Man.
16. Concerning the Canaanitish Woman. Meaning of the “Borders of Tyre and Sidon.”
[5497] Cf. Matt. xxv. 34.
17. Exposition of the Details in the Narrative.
[5541] ὀυ κελεύει ἁλλὰ παραγγέλλει
[5542] Matt. xiv. 19; Mark vi. 41; Luke ix. 16.
[5543] Matt. xv. 36; Mark viii. 6.
[5545] Or, did not mention the occasion of this.
[5550] Luke xiii. 12, Literally ‘thou art sent away.’
1. Concerning Those Who Asked Him to Show Them a Sign from Heaven.
2. Why the Pharisees Asked a Sign from Heaven.
[5560] The familiar saying so frequently quoted as Scripture in the Fathers, sometimes ascribed to Jesus by them, sometimes to Paul. See Suicer.
3. The Answer of Jesus to Their Request.
4. Why Jesus Called Them an Adulterous Generation. The Law as Husband.
[5574] Rom. vii. 1, 2. ῾Η γὰρ ὕπανδρος γυνὴ τῷ ζῶντι ἀνδρὶ δέδεται νόμῳ. The reader must note that Origen takes νόμῳ in apposition to ἀνδρὶ.
[5576] Or, who was God.
[5584] Luke vii. 37-50. Cf. Matt. xxvi. 6.
5. Concerning the Leaven of the Pharisees.
[5586] Cf. Gal. iii. 3.
6. The Meaning of Leaven. Jesus’ Knowledge of the Heart.
7. Relative Magnitude of Sins of the Heart and Actual Sins.
[5602] Or, violence in the licentious person.
8. The Leaven Figurative Like the Water Spoken of by Jesus to the Woman of Samaria.
[5606] Or, Him.
[5621] Or, a Peter.
11. The Promise Given to Peter Not Restricted to Him, But Applicable to All Disciples Like Him.
[5632] Prov. xxx. l9.
12. Every Sin—Every False Doctrine is a “Gate of Hades.”
[5634] Or, each of the sins on account of which Christ was about to go to Hades. (Erasmus)
[5636] Or, you.
13. The “Gates of Hades” And the “Gates of Zion” Contrasted.
[5651] That is, the Minor Prophets.
14. In What Sense the “Keys” Are Given to Peter, and Every Peter. Limitations of This Power.
[5668] Or, which he may regard as mediocre.
16. Gradual Growth in Knowledge of the Disciples.
17. Reasons for that Gradual Knowledge.
18. Jesus Was at First Proclaimed by the Twelve as a Worker and a Teacher Only.
19. Importance of the Proclamation of Jesus as the Crucified.
20. Why Jesus Had to Go to Jerusalem.
[5692] Or (putting a comma after Jerusalem), but that on the third day He might rise.
[5693] See xi. c. 6, p. 434, note 2.
21. The Rebuke of Peter and the Answer of Jesus.
[5696] These three sentences are supplied from the old Latin version, as at this point there is a hiatus in the mss.
22. Importance of the Expressions “Behind” And “Turned.”
[5706] Ecclesiasticus 18.30.
23. Peter as a Stumbling-Block to Jesus.
24. Self-Denial and Cross-Bearing.
[5722] Matt. xxvii. 32; Mark xv. 21; Luke xxiii. 26.
25. Reference to the Saying of Paul About Crucifixion with Christ.
[5725] 1 Cor. i. 30; Eph. ii. 14.
26. The Less of Life; And the Saving of It.
27. Life Lost to the World is Saved.
28. The Exchange for One’s Life.
29. The Coming of the Son of Man in Glory.
[5740] Reading προευτρεπισός as the Vetus Inter.
30. The Word Appears in Different Forms; The Time of His Coming in Glory.
31. The Simpler Interpretation of the Promise About Not Tasting of Death.
33. Interpretation of “Tasting of Death.”
34. Meaning of “Until.” No Limitation of Promise.
35. Scriptural References to Death.
[5772] Matt. xvi. 28; Mark ix. 1; Luke ix. 27.
36. Concerning the Transfiguration of the Saviour.
[5779] Matt. xvii. 1; Mark ix. 2.
37. Force of the Words “Before Them.”
[5781] Matt. xvii. 2; Mark ix. 2.
[5783] Rom. xiii. 13; 1 Thess. v. 5.
38. The Garments White as the Light.
39. Jesus Was Transfigured—“As He Was Praying.”
[5788] Luke 9.28,29 alone mentions the praying.
40. Discussion of the Saying of Peter.
[5791] Matt. xvii. 4; Mark ix. 5; Luke ix. 33.
41. Figurative Interpretation of the Same.
42. The Meaning of the “Bright Cloud.”
[5815] The text is mutilated.
43. Relation of Moses and Elijah to Jesus. The Injunction of Silence.
1. Relation of the Baptist to Elijah. The Theory of Transmigration Considered.
2. “The Spirit and Power of Elijah”—Not the Soul—Were in the Baptist.
[5838] Dan. iii. 86. (Song of the Three Children 64.)
[5851] Cf. Luke i. 17.
[5856] Cf. Matt. xxv. 35.
[5861] The text is uncertain.
[5866] Ecclesiasticus 27.11.
[5869] Cf. Matt. xiii. 31, 32.
6. Influence of the Moon and Stars on Men.
[5872] Lam. iii. 38. Origen reads τὰ καλὰ instead of τὰ κακὰ.
8. Jesus’ Prediction of His “Delivery” Into the Hands of Men.
9. Satan and the “Delivery” Of Jesus.
10. Concerning Those Who Demanded the Half-Shekel.
[5907] Mark xli. 17; Luke xx. 25.
[5917] Matt. xvii. 27; xviii. 1.
15. Greatness Varies in Degree.
16. Why the Great are Compared to Little Children.
[5928] Or, the Word.
17. The Little Ones and Their Stumbling-Blocks.
[5932] Or, be free from. The Vetus Inter. has “extra dolores.” It has had ἔξω instead of ἑξῆς.
18. Who Was the Little Child Called by Jesus.
19. The Parallel Passages in Mark and Luke.
20. The World and Offences. Various Meanings of World.
[5949] Lomm., following Huet. refers to Esther (The addition to Esther, xiv. 2). But the word κόσμος does not occur in this passage. See Judith x. 4; 1 Macc. ii. 11.
21. The “Woe” Does Not Apply to the Disciples of Jesus.
22. What the “Occasions of Stumbling” Are.
23. In What Sense “Necessary.”
24. The Offending Hand, or Foot, or Eye.
[5972] Cf. Matt. xviii. 9.
25. The Eye or Hand Allegorized.
26. The Little Ones and Their Angels.
[5977] Cf. 1 Cor. xiii. 11.
27. When the Little Ones are Assigned to Angels.
28. Close Relationship of Angels to Their “Little Ones.”
[5999] Cf. Tit. iii. 5; 1 Pet. ii. 2.
[6000] The text is perhaps corrupt.
29. The Little Ones and the Perfect.
31. The Power to Bind on Earth and in Heaven.
1. The Power of Harmony in Relation to Prayer.
[6037] συμφωνήσωσιν.
[6043] Prov. xix. 14, ἁρμόζεται·.
[6059] Or reading χωρίζει, following the Vetus Inter, keeps apart.
[6061] 1 Cor. xii. 25, 18, 25, 26.
2. The Harmony of Husband and Wife.
3. The Harmony of Body, Soul, and Spirit.
4. Harmony of the Old and New Covenants.
7. Exposition Continued: the King and the Servants.
8. The Principle of the Reckoning.
9. The Time Occupied by the Reckoning.
[6097] Matt. x. 26 ; Luke xii. 2.
[6101] Luke xix. 19. In chap. 12 Origen reads: Be thou also over five cities—as W. & H., and comments on the difference of the reward. The mss. are therefore in error here.
10. The Man Who Owed Many Talents.
11. The Servant Who Owed a Hundred Pence.
12. The Time of the Reckoning.
[6127] Luke xix. 19. See note 4, p. 500.
13. No Forgiveness to the Unforgiving.
[6140] That is, the God of the Old Testament—according to Marcion.
14. How Jesus Finished His Words.
[6145] Mark xiv. 49; Matt. xxvi. 56.
[6147] τελετὰς. Origen’s play on the words ἐτέλεσεν and τελετή cannot be fully reproduced in English. The word τελετή, in reference to the mysteries, meant the rite, or participation in the rite, by which one became perfect; and in later Christian usage it was applied to the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. See Suicer.
[6149] 1 Cor. ii. 4. πνεύματος δυνάμεως. The omission of the καὶ is strange; for in the Contra Celsum (i. 2) Origen characterises the argument from prophecy as “the demonstration of the Spirit” and the argument from miracles as “the demonstration of power.”
[6171] Or, by God the woman is married to the man.
17. Union of Christ and the Church.
[6179] John xix. 6, 15; Luke xxiii. 18.
[6198] The text is corrupt.
21. Union of Angels and the Souls of Men.
[6210] Cf. Deut. xxiv. 1-3.
[6212] Cf. Her. Sim. viii. 3.
[6213] Cf. Her. Sim. vi. 2.
[6214] Cf. Her. Sim. vi. 3.
[6215] The text is probably corrupt. Perhaps it means the marriage of a second angel with our soul.
22. The Marriage of Church Dignitaries.
[6220] Cf. Deut. xxiv. 4.
23. Some Laws Given by Concession to Human Weakness.
24. Jewish Criticism of the Law of Christ.
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