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Origen

Commentary on Matthew - Book XII

Contents

Concerning Those Who Asked Him to Show Them a Sign from Heaven.

Why the Pharisees Asked a Sign from Heaven.

The Answer of Jesus to Their Request.

Why Jesus Called Them an Adulterous Generation. The Law as Husband.

Concerning the Leaven of the Pharisees.

The Meaning of Leaven. Jesus' Knowledge of the Heart.

Relative Magnitude of Sins of the Heart and Actual Sins.

The Leaven Figurative Like the Water Spoken of by Jesus to the Woman of Samaria.

Concerning the Question of Jesus in Cæsarea, Who Do Men Say that I Am? Different Conceptions of Jesus.

The Answer of Peter.

The Promise Given to Peter Not Restricted to Him, But Applicable to All Disciples Like Him.

Every Sin—Every False Doctrine is a “Gate of Hades.”

The “Gates of Hades” And the “Gates of Zion” Contrasted.

In What Sense the “Keys” Are Given to Peter, and Every Peter. Limitations of This Power.

Relation of the Former Commission Given by Jesus to the Disciples, to His Present Injunction of Silence. Belief and Knowledge Contrasted.

Gradual Growth in Knowledge of the Disciples.

Reasons for that Gradual Knowledge.

Jesus Was at First Proclaimed by the Twelve as a Worker and a Teacher Only.

Importance of the Proclamation of Jesus as the Crucified.

Why Jesus Had to Go to Jerusalem.

The Rebuke of Peter and the Answer of Jesus.

Importance of the Expressions “Behind” And “Turned.”

Peter as a Stumbling-Block to Jesus.

Self-Denial and Cross-Bearing.

Reference to the Saying of Paul About Crucifixion with Christ.

The Less of Life; And the Saving of It.

Life Lost to the World is Saved.

The Exchange for One's Life.

The Coming of the Son of Man in Glory.

The Word Appears in Different Forms; The Time of His Coming in Glory.

The Simpler Interpretation of the Promise About Not Tasting of Death.

Standing by the Saviour.

Interpretation of “Tasting of Death.”

Meaning of “Until.” No Limitation of Promise.

Scriptural References to Death.

Concerning the Transfiguration of the Saviour.

Force of the Words “Before Them.”

The Garments White as the Light.

Jesus Was Transfigured—“As He Was Praying.”

Discussion of the Saying of Peter.

Figurative Interpretation of the Same.

The Meaning of the “Bright Cloud.”

Relation of Moses and Elijah to Jesus. The Injunction of Silence.