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The patristic commentary tradition on Matthew begins with Origen’s pioneering twenty-five-volume commentary on the First Gospel in the mid-third century. In the Latin-speaking West, where commentaries did not appear until about a century later, the first commentary on Matthew was written by Hilary of Poitiers in the mid-fourth century. From that point, the First Gospel became one of the texts...

carnal passion, if they had not been stirred up from without. This is what the Lord taught in the parable of the evil one planting weeds: “While the men were sleeping,” that is, when they neglected to guard against sin, “the enemy came and sowed weeds.” 23HOMILY 48.24 . CHRYSOSTOM: By “wars and rumors of wars” he refers to the troubles that are coming upon them. They supposed after that war the end would come. But see how he warns them: “But the end
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