[The rendering above has been corrected to conform to the punctuation of the Greek text.—R.]
Editorial footnote · Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew, Homily 67, editorial note cite_note-36 · Original source
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Homily 67
Complete historical editorial footnotes. These notes retain the original edition’s wording; individual note authors are unspecified.
English translation and editorial credits: Sir George Prevost, M. B. Riddle.
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For he that despises money even here already receives his reward, being freed from anxiety, from rivalry, from false accusation, from plotting from envy. He that is temperate, and lives orderly, even before his departure, is crowned and lives in pleasure, being delivered from unseemliness, ridicule, dangers of accusation,and the other things that are to be feared. All the remaining parts of virtue likewise make us a return here already.
τν νδρα, the (great) man.
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And how was it they did not say that the baptism was of men? “They feared the people”it is said. Seest thou a perverse heart? In every case they despise God and do all things for the sake of men. For this man too they feared for their sakes not reverencing the saintbut on account of men,and they were not willing to believe in Christ, because of men, and all their evils were engendered to them from hence.
[“and harlots” omitted here.]
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But when, not understanding His sayings, they had delivered the judgment, He unfolds His concealed meaning after this, and saith, “Publicans and harlots go into the kingdom of Heaven before you. For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the publicansbelieved him; and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterwards, that ye might believe him.”