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. On St Matthew shares wording with 11 of the other 37. This is quotation, or a common source, or one translator doing both — not a resemblance inferred from vocabulary.

• St Matthew — 17 passages, the longest 24 words. Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh to thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of Matthew 21 and Homily 66
• Augustine, On St John — 7 passages, the longest 15 words. beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold the same baptizeth, and all men come Homily 36 and Tractate 13
• Cyril of Alexandria, On St Luke — 5 passages, the longest 22 words. beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye Sermon 33 and Homily 23
• Augustine, The City of God — 3 passages, the longest 14 words. thing that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you Homily 2 and Book 22
• St Luke — 2 passages, the longest 17 words. He that is not with me is against me, and he that gathereth not with me scattereth Luke 11 and Homily 41
• Aquinas, Catena Aurea on St Mark — 2 passages, the longest 11 words. thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days Homily 87 and Chapter 15
• Chrysostom, On the Acts — 2 passages, the longest 7 words. publicans and harlots go into the kingdom Homily 10 and Homily 15
• Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ — 1 passage, the longest 12 words. standeth and heareth Him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice Homily 30 and Book 4
• Augustine, The Confessions — 1 passage, the longest 8 words. out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Homily 7 and Book 13
• St Mark — 1 passage, the longest 10 words. camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins Mark 1 and Homily 10
• St John — 1 passage, the longest 14 words. Thou art Simon, the Son of Jona, thou shalt be called Cephas, which is John 1 and Homily 14

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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 84 pieces.
• Aquinas quotes Chrysostom 88 times in the Catena Aurea on St Mark — from works other than this one, but it is the same voice.

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.

• Paul 250times
• Peter 148times
• David 137times
• Moses 99times
• Abraham 81times
• Jerusalem 70times
• Herod 63times
• Egypt 57times
• Pilate 29times
• Rome 21times
• Babylon 21times
• Persia 16times
• Solomon 15times
• Corinth 14times

Where this text comes from

Translator: Schaff, NPNF 1.10, 1888. Source: CCEL.

The text here is the Oxford translation as revised for Philip Schaff’s Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, first series, volume 10, 1888 — public domain, from the text at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.

Preached at Antioch in the 380s and preserved in Greek. The series is the oldest complete commentary on Matthew to come down to us, and Aquinas drew on it heavily.

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.