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and when discoursing with the Sadducees about the resurrection, the Lord says thus: "For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven." This is the purpose of the writing of the blessed evangelist Matthew. Paragraph 5.195 And he is a herald not of the Old but of the New Testament, who wrote for us how and when and from whom the founder of the second state was born, that is, the Lord Christ, and how he lived and was killed and rose again and ascended into heaven, where the commonwealth of the second state is. Glory to God who from the beginning prepared and foretold these things and now has fulfilled and is fulfilling them. Amen. 5.196 This is the second, Mark, who in Rome, at Peter's command, wrote a Gospel; who, setting baptism as the beginning of the Gospel, that is, of the evangelical way of life, which was a type of the resurrection from the dead, through which we are reborn into immortal and immutable life, then also himself having spoken of the temptations and the victory, likewise also the plot and the death and the resurrection, completed his own writing. He also mentions John the Baptist preaching that the kingdom of heaven has drawn near, all of which he also spoke in agreement with the blessed Matthew. For there is one purpose for all of divine Scripture. Paragraph 5.197 And he, being a herald of the New Testament, wrote the same things for us as the one before him, beginning from the history according to the baptism, which is also a type of the resurrection from the dead, I mean of the new and heavenly commonwealth, and how he was baptized and lived and was killed and rose again and ascended into heaven, where the place and the commonwealth of the second state is. Glory to God who from the beginning prepared and foretold these things and now has fulfilled and is fulfilling them. Amen. 5.198 This is Luke, the third of the evangelists, who, having observed many attempting to write Gospels and fabricating many things from their hearts, himself quickly writes an account to his own disciple Theophilus, securing him lest he be carried away by their fabrications, nor be diverted from what he had formerly learned: "that you might know," he says, "with certainty the truth concerning the things you were taught." He narrates to him, therefore, the very things he had delivered to him, beginning from the birth of John, teaching this, that the birth of the Forerunner was also wondrous, then having narrated that the birth according to the flesh of the Lord Christ himself also came to be wondrously, having spoken of his forefathers in reverse order according to the purpose of the preceding Matthew, as being from David and Abraham, and further extending it, as he is also from Adam, and finding no one later, he finally traced back to God, saying "of God," that is, of the one who began creation according to the hierophant Moses and made the first-formed Adam. 5.199 Then again he also, having said similar things to the others concerning the baptism and the temptations, and also the death and the resurrection, after these things both in the Gospel itself and in the Acts reports his ascent into heaven, and that he will come again in this way, and he too completes his own writing looking to one purpose, which all await, teaching this also to his own disciple, the God-loving Theophilus. Paragraph 5.200 And he, being a herald of the same New Testament, declared the same things as the others, beginning from the birth of the Forerunner, coming also to his own birth, and speaking of the life according to the law, likewise also the evangelical life, I mean baptism, death and resurrection; and at last he also announced the ascent into heaven, where the dwelling-place of our second state is. Glory to God who from the beginning prepared and foretold these things and now has fulfilled and is fulfilling them. Amen. 5.201 This one again wrote of the doxology of the multitude of the angelic host at the birth of the Lord Christ according to the flesh, rejoicing and exulting and saying: "Glory in the highest

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καὶ σαδδουκαίους διαλεγόμενος περὶ ἀναστάσεως ὁ Κύριός φησιν οὕτως· "Ἐν γὰρ τῇ ἀναστάσει οὔτε γαμοῦσιν, οὔτε γαμίζονται, ἀλλ' ὡς ἄγγελοι Θεοῦ εἰσιν ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ." Οὗτος ὁ σκοπὸς τῆς συγγραφῆς τοῦ εὐαγγελιστοῦ τοῦ μακαρίου Ματθαίου. Παραγραφή 5.195 Καὶ οὗτος οὐ τῆς Παλαιᾶς ἀλλὰ τῆς Νέας ∆ιαθήκης κῆρυξ, ὃς συνέγραψεν ἡμῖν πῶς τε καὶ πότε ἐτέχθη καὶ ἐκ τίνος ὁ τῆς δευτέρας καταστάσεως ἀρχηγός, τουτέστιν ὁ ∆εσπότης Χριστός, καὶ ὅπως ἐπολιτεύθη καὶ ἀπεκτάνθη καὶ ἀνέστη καὶ εἰς οὐρανοὺς ἀνελήλυθεν, ἔνθα ἐστὶ τῆς δευτέρας καταστάσεως ἡ πολιτεία. ∆όξα τῷ ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἑτοιμάσαντι καὶ προκαταγγείλαντι περὶ τούτων Θεῷ καὶ νῦν πληρώσαντι καὶ πληροῦντι. Ἀμήν. 5.196 Οὗτος ὁ δεύτερος ὁ ἐν Ῥώμῃ, Πέτρου ἐντειλαμένου αὐτῷ, Μάρκος συγγραψάμενος Εὐαγγέλιον, ὃς ἀρχὴν τοῦ Εὐαγγελίου, ἤτοι τῆς εὐαγγελικῆς πολιτείας, τὸ βάπτισμα ὁρισάμενος, ὃ τύπος ἦν τῆς ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀναστάσεως, δι' ἧς εἰς ἀθάνατον καὶ ἄτρεπτον ζωὴν ἀναγεννώμεθα, εἶτα καὶ αὐτὸς τοὺς πειρασμοὺς εἰρηκὼς καὶ τὴν νίκην, ὁμοίως καὶ τὴν ἐπιβουλὴν καὶ τὸν θάνατον καὶ τὴν ἀνάστασιν, ἐτέλεσε τὴν ἑαυτοῦ συγγραφήν. Μέμνηται δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς Ἰωάννου τοῦ Βαπτιστοῦ κηρύττοντος ἠγγικέναι τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν, ἅπερ πάντα καὶ αὐτὸς σύμφωνα τῷ μακαρίῳ Ματθαίῳ ἐφθέγξατο. Εἷς γὰρ σκοπός ἐστι πάσης τῆς θείας Γραφῆς. Παραγραφή 5.197 Καὶ οὗτος τῆς Νέας ∆ιαθήκης κῆρυξ ὑπάρχων τὰ αὐτὰ τῷ πρὸ αὐτοῦ ἡμῖν συνέγραψεν, ἐκ τῆς κατὰ τὸ βάπτισμα ἱστορίας ἀρξάμενος, ἥτις καὶ τύπος ἐστὶ τῆς ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀναστάσεως, λέγω δὴ τῆς καινῆς καὶ οὐρανίου πολιτείας, ὅπως τε ἐβαπτίσθη καὶ ἐπολιτεύθη καὶ ἀπεκτάνθη καὶ ἀνέστη καὶ εἰς οὐρανοὺς ἀνελήλυθεν, ἔνθα ἐστὶ τῆς δευτέρας καταστάσεως ὁ τόπος καὶ ἡ πολιτεία. ∆όξα τῷ ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἑτοιμάσαντι καὶ προμηνύσαντι περὶ τούτων Θεῷ καὶ νῦν πληρώσαντι καὶ πληροῦντι. Ἀμήν. 5.198 Οὗτος Λουκᾶς ὁ τρίτος τῶν εὐαγγελιστῶν, ὃς θεωρήσας πολλοὺς ἐπικεχειρηκότας ἀναγράψασθαι Εὐαγγέλια καὶ ἐκ καρδίας πολλὰ πλαττομένους, αὐτὸς τάχιστα πρὸς τὸν ἴδιον μαθητὴν Θεόφιλον συγγράφει λόγον ἀσφαλιζόμενος μὴ παρασυρῆναι τοῖς ἐκείνων πλάσμασι, μηδὲ παρατραπῆναι ὧν πρώην μεμάθηκεν· "Ἵνα γνῷς, φησίν, ἀκριβῶς περὶ ὧν κατηχήθης λόγων τὴν ἀσφάλειαν." ∆ιηγεῖται τοίνυν αὐτῷ ὅσαπερ καὶ παραδεδώκει αὐτῷ, ἀρξάμενος ἀπὸ τῆς γενέσεως Ἰωάννου, τοῦτο διδάσκων ὅτι καὶ τοῦ Προδρόμου ἡ γένεσις παράδοξος ἦν, εἶτα τὴν αὐτοῦ τοῦ ∆εσπότου Χριστοῦ κατὰ σάρκα καὶ αὐτὴν παραδόξως διηγησάμενος γεγενῆσθαι, κατὰ τὸν τοῦ προλαβόντος Ματθαίου σκοπὸν εἰρηκὼς κατὰ ἀναποδισμὸν τοὺς αὐτοῦ προγόνους, ὡς ἐκ τοῦ ∆αυῒδ καὶ τοῦ Ἀβραάμ, ἔτι τε παρατείνας, ὡς καὶ ἐκ τοῦ Ἀδὰμ ὑπάρχει, μὴ εὑρηκὼς ὕστερόν τινα ἐπὶ τὸν Θεὸν λοιπὸν ἀνέδραμε, λέγων "τοῦ Θεοῦ", τουτέστι τοῦ ἀρξαμένου τῆς κτίσεως κατὰ τὸν ἱεροφάντην Μωϋσέα καὶ ποιήσαντος τὸν πρωτόπλαστον Ἀδάμ. 5.199 Εἶτα πάλιν καὶ αὐτὸς ὅμοια τοῖς ἄλλοις εἰρηκὼς περὶ τοῦ βαπτίσματος καὶ τῶν πειρασμῶν, ἔτι τε καὶ τοῦ θανάτου καὶ τῆς ἀναστάσεως, μετὰ ταῦτα καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ Εὐαγγελίῳ καὶ ἐν ταῖς Πράξεσι τὴν ἄνοδον αὐτοῦ τὴν εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀπαγγέλλει, καὶ ὅτι οὕτως πάλιν ἐλεύσεται, καὶ τελειοῖ καὶ αὐτὸς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γραφὴν εἰς ἕνα σκοπὸν ἀφορῶν, ὃν πάντες προσδοκῶσι, τοῦτο διδάσκων καὶ τὸν ἑαυτοῦ μαθητὴν τὸν θεοφιλῆ Θεόφιλον. Παραγραφή 5.200 Καὶ οὗτος κῆρυξ τῆς αὐτῆς Νέας ∆ιαθήκης ὢν τὰ αὐτὰ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἐξεῖπεν, ἀρξάμενος ἀπὸ τῆς γενέσεως τοῦ Προδρόμου, ἐλθὼν καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν αὐτοῦ γένεσιν, εἰπὼν δὲ καὶ τὴν κατὰ νόμον πολιτείαν, ὁμοίως καὶ τὴν εὐαγγελικήν, λέγω δὴ βάπτισμα, θάνατον καὶ ἀνάστασιν· ἐς ὕστερον καὶ αὐτὸς τὴν ἄνοδον τὴν εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν κατήγγειλεν, ἔνθα ἐστὶ τὸ τῆς δευτέρας ἡμῶν καταστάσεως κατοικητήριον. ∆όξα τῷ ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἑτοιμάσαντι καὶ προμηνύσαντι περὶ τούτων Θεῷ καὶ νῦν πληρώσαντι καὶ πληροῦντι. Ἀμήν. 5.201 Οὗτος πάλιν συνέγραψε τοῦ πλήθους τῆς στρατιᾶς τῶν ἀγγέλων τὴν δοξολογίαν ἐπὶ τῇ γενέσει τοῦ ∆εσπότου Χριστοῦ κατὰ σάρκα χαιρόντων καὶ ἀγαλλιώντων καὶ λεγόντων· "∆όξα ἐν ὑψίστοις