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Fragments on Matthew

1Mt 21, 23 To the deceitful who do not approach to learn, it is inopportune to unfold the deeper things.

2 μτ 21, 28-32 A certain man had two sons, and the first is the nations, whom God the common father called first; for having sown the taught and natural law into their minds, he gave as preachers the things that are seen, but the good order of their soul was confounded upon wood and stones; for 'they said to the wood: You are my father'. Therefore they did not endure being hindered; for they said we do not know the Lord. These therefore, having repented later, went into the vineyard. And when the first refused, the father went to the second, that is, to Israel, who, being called through Moses, said: 'All that God has spoken, we will both do and hear'. who neither did nor heard nor repented later. whom the prostitutes and the tax collectors condemned, that is, the nations.

3 μτ 21, 28-32 The parable wishes to say this, that the tax collectors and the prostitutes, having repented and having done the things pleasing to God, are justified, having been persuaded by John, even if at first they were disobedient to the law, or rather to God. But the Pharisees who say they keep the law in bare words alone are rejected by God; for 'the kingdom of heaven is not in words, but in deeds'; for 'not the hearer of the law, but the doer' is righteous. And the rest with God, these are similar to those who promise to go into the vineyard to work and do not go.

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Fragmenta in Matthaeum

1Mt 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 καλούμενος διὰ Μωυσέως εἶπεν· «πάντα ὅσα ἐλάλησεν « ὁ θεὸς καὶ «ποιήσομεν καὶ ἀκουσόμεθα «. οἵτινες οὔτε ἐποίησαν οὔτε ἤκουσαν οὔτε μετεμελήθησαν ὕστερον. οὓς κατέκριναν αἱ πόρναι καὶ οἱ τελῶναι, τοῦτ' ἔστιν τὰ ἔθνη.

3 μτ 21, 28-32 Τοῦτο βούλεται εἰπεῖν ἡ παραβολή, ὅτι οἱ μὲν τελῶναι καὶ αἱ πόρναι μετανοήσαντες καὶ τὰ ἀρεστὰ τῷ θεῷ ποιήσαντες δικαιοῦνται Ἰωάννῃ πεισθέντες, εἰ καὶ κατ' ἀρχὰς ἠπείθουν τῷ νόμῳ, μᾶλλον δὲ τῷ θεῷ. οἱ δὲ λέγοντες τηρεῖν τὸν νόμον Φαρισαῖοι ἐν μόνοις ῥήμασιν ψιλοῖς ἀπόβλητοί εἰσιν παρὰ θεῷ· «οὐ γὰρ ἐν λόγοις ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν, ἀλλ' ἐν ἔργοις «· «οὐ γὰρ ὁ ἀκροατὴς τοῦ νόμου, ἀλλ' ὁ ποιητὴς « δίκαιος. καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ παρὰ τῷ θεῷ οὗτοι ὅμοιοί εἰσιν τοῖς ὑποσχο-μένοις ἀπελθεῖν εἰς τὸν ἀμπελῶνα ἐπὶ τῷ ἐργάζεσθαι καὶ μὴ ἀπελθοῦσιν.