ST. HILARY OF POITIERS

COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW

Translated by

D. H. WILLIAMS

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS

Washington, D.C.

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English biblical quotations in footnotes and introduction are drawn from the first edition of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

library of congress cataloging-in-publication data

Hilary, Saint, Bishop of Poitiers, d. 367?

[In Matthaeum. English]

Commentary on Matthew / St. Hilary of Poitiers;

translated by D.H. Williams.

p. cm.—(The fathers of the church; v. 125)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

isbn 978-0-8132-0125-2 (cloth: alk. paper)

1. Bible. N.T. Matthew—Commentaries—Early works to 1800.

I. Williams, Daniel H. II. Title.

BS2575.53.H5513 2013

226.207—dc23

2012012493

THE FATHERS

OF THE CHURCH

a new translation

volume 125

editorial board

David G. Hunter

University of Kentucky

Editorial Director

Andrew Cain University of Colorado	Joseph T. Lienhard, S.J. Fordham University
Brian Daley, S.J. University of Notre Dame	Rebecca Lyman Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Susan Ashbrook Harvey Brown University	Wendy Mayer Australian Catholic University
William E. Klingshirn The Catholic University of America	Robert D. Sider Dickinson College

Trevor Lipscombe

Director

The Catholic University of America Press

FORMER EDITORIAL DIRECTORS

Ludwig Schopp, Roy J. Deferrari, Bernard M. Peebles,

Hermigild Dressler, O.F.M., Thomas P. Halton

Carole Monica C. Burnett

Staff Editor

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Select Bibliography

Introduction

commentary on matthew

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Thirty-One

Chapter Thirty-Two

Chapter Thirty-Three

appendices and indices

Appendix I

Appendix II

General Index

Index of Holy Scripture

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I had much help in the gradual unfolding of this project. In 2000, a University Teacher’s Fellowship from The National Endowment for the Humanities University enabled me to begin the task of collating and producing an initial translation. Four years later I received a Research Grant, Baylor University (Summer–Fall, 2004), allowing me another semester ...