Catena Aurea on St Matthew

What it shares word for word

Every run of seven words or more that appears both here and in another book on this shelf, merged into the longest passage they have in common. Catena Aurea on St Matthew shares wording with 15 of the other 55. This is quotation, or a common source, or one translator doing both — not a resemblance inferred from vocabulary.

• Chrysostom, On St Matthew — 239 passages, the longest 75 words. and said, it is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field to bury strangers in. Wherefore… Homily 85 and Chapter 27
• St Matthew — 109 passages, the longest 33 words. And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets: and he called them Matthew 4 and Chapter 4
• Aquinas, Catena Aurea on St Mark — 52 passages, the longest 30 words. And they began to accuse Him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King." [Luke Chapter 15 and Chapter 27
• Augustine, On St John — 30 passages, the longest 30 words. Some say that thou art John the Baptist; some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Tractate 124 and Chapter 16
• Augustine, The City of God — 28 passages, the longest 62 words. The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here. 42. The quee… Chapter 12 and Book 22
• Cyril of Alexandria, On St Luke — 26 passages, the longest 26 words. heavy laden; and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and Sermon 85 and Chapter 11
• St Mark — 13 passages, the longest 13 words. Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Mark 8 and Chapter 16
• Chrysostom, On the Acts — 10 passages, the longest 21 words. Whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder Homily 10 and Chapter 21
• St Luke — 8 passages, the longest 20 words. For every one that asketh receiveth: and he that seeketh findeth: and to him that knocketh it shall be opened Luke 11 and Chapter 7
• Augustine, The Confessions — 6 passages, the longest 29 words. seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh Chapter 7 and Book 12
• Bede, The English People — 5 passages, the longest 22 words. Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man Chapter 15 and Book 1
• Eusebius, The Church History — 3 passages, the longest 29 words. in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee Chapter 2 and Book 1
• St John — 3 passages, the longest 12 words. receiveth me: and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me John 13 and Chapter 10
• St Paul, To the Romans — 3 passages, the longest 11 words. if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law Romans 2 and Chapter 7
• Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews — 2 passages, the longest 7 words. the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin Chapter 2 and Book 11

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Who quotes it

Quotation, here, means a named attribution or a commentary working through the text — not a guess from shared vocabulary.

• It quotes St Matthew throughout — that is what it is. It reaches 28 of the 28 chapters, in 28 pieces.
• It is nothing but quotation: 4,822 passages from 40 voices, each one named. Jerome supplies 845 of them and Chrysostom 835; the whole count is here.

The names it carries

Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.

• Peter 262times
• Jerusalem 156times
• Herod 146times
• Moses 145times
• David 130times
• Abraham 71times
• Egypt 61times
• Paul 58times
• Pilate 55times
• Rome 45times
• Caesar 39times
• Solomon 29times
• Babylon 19times
• Persia 6times

Where this text comes from

Translator: The Oxford translation, 1842. Source: CCEL.

The text here is the Oxford translation published by J.G.F. and J. Rivington in 1842, public domain, from the text at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Abbreviated names in the printing (Chrys., Aug., Gloss. ord.) are written out; where a heading names a gloss by its kind, the kind is kept beside the reference. Nothing else is altered.

Complete. The first of the four gospels Aquinas chained, finished about 1264 and dedicated to Pope Urban IV.

Public domain, and free to read, copy and quote. Nothing on this page is written by anyone living: the words are the translator’s and the counts are the text’s.