Matthew
quoted 77 times by 18 works · held by the library
also in the atlas: Matthew the figure
Most often carried — quoted as a source. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
6 quoted · 4 reported · 67 carried
8 neutral 3 extendedin the voice of Jesus Christ 5 , Barlaam 3 , Basil of Caesarea 3 , Christ 2 , Tertullian 2 , The author 2 , Bar Hebraeus 1 , God the Father 1 , Matthew the Evangelist 1 , The pure Gospel 1
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in the voice of the Word
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 neutral 1 extended 21 citations · 35 passages
book 1 2 passages anchored here · book 2 7 passages anchored here · book 3 7 passages anchored here · book 4 6 passages anchored here · book 6 9 passages anchored here · book 7 4 passages anchored hereThe paragraph directly quotes and attributes a saying of the Lord matching Matthew's gospel.
And again, when He says, "If you wish to be perfect, sell your possessions and give to the poor," He reproves the man who boasted that he had kept all the commandments from his youth;
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in the voice of Basil of Caesarea
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Letters Basil of Caesarea 1 neutral 14 citations · 16 passages
letter 22 · letter 125 · letter 203 · letter 204 · letter 207 · letter 210 2 passages anchored here · letter 217 · letter 224 2 passages anchored hereand 5 more chapters
The Lord's command is quoted to justify the fixed order of Father, Son, and Spirit.
" And on account of those who confound all things and do not keep the teaching in the Gospels, it is necessary to add this distinction also:
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in the voice of Barlaam
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Barlaam and Josaphat John of Damascus 8 citations · 11 passages
chapter 4 · chapter 11 · chapter 12 3 passages anchored here · chapter 18 · chapter 19 · chapter 25 · chapter 28 · chapter 36 2 passages anchored hereThe Great Commission is explicitly quoted as Christ's own words.
Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them—not confining the gathering in his name to this measure, but by "two or three" indicating an unbounded number.
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in the voice of The author
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Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah Bar Hebraeus 6 citations · 8 passages
ch. 3 2 passages anchored here · ch. 11 2 passages anchored here · ch. 19 2 passages anchored here · ch. 23 2 passages anchored hereThe beatitude is quoted with the same evidential force as the other testimonies, and the apparatus assigns it to Matthew.
And the pure Gospel said:
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in the voice of Jesus Christ
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The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 neutral 2 extended 6 citations
book i, chapter i. · ch. 9 2 passages anchored here · chapter xiii.: on oaths. · chapter xx.: on punishments. · ch. 31Matches the citation of the Gospel of Matthew.
But among the Hebrews themselves there were always living some strangers, persons devout and fearing God, such was the Syrophoenician woman, mentioned in the Gospel of St.
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in the voice of God the Father
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Adversus Praxean Tertullian 1 neutral 3 citations · 4 passages
Matthew's Gospel is reported both as named source and as source of a quoted saying.
Any untaught or perverse person has taken this saying amiss, as though it sounded of diversity and were stretching out, from diversity, a separation of Father and Son and Spirit.
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De Carne Christi Tertullian 3 citations · 2 passages
Direct quotation from Matthew's infancy narrative central to the grammatical argument.
You say that he was born "through" a virgin, not "of" a virgin, and "in" the womb, not "of" the womb — because the angel too in a dream said to Joseph, "For that which is born in her is of the Holy Spirit," and did not say "of her.
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in the voice of Tertullian
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Scorpiace Tertullian 3 citations
Quotes Christ's sayings from Matthew on persecution and its rewards as direct authoritative speech.
It remains, lest antiquity perchance had its own sacred truth, to review the Christian newness — as though it had concerning God too another, and likewise a discipline at rivalry, whose Wisdom knows not how to slay her sons.
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in the voice of the Sadducees
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom Henry Sumner Maine 2 neutral 2 citations · 1 passage
Matches the citation of the Gospel of Matthew.
Matthew (v.
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De Anima Tertullian 2 citations · 6 passages
Tertullian repeatedly quotes and cites the Gospel of Matthew across the section as scriptural authority.
Therefore, if it is so, neither will God be able to raise up sons of Abraham from the stones, nor make the offspring of vipers bring forth fruits of repentance.
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De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber Tertullian 2 citations
Explicitly invokes this gospel saying to support the opening claim about divine providence over loss.
For it is modesty not to desire what has been taken away — and taken away by the Lord God, without whose will not even a leaf falls from the tree, nor a sparrow worth a single penny falls to the ground.
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in the voice of the narrator
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An Essay on Crimes and Punishments Cesare Beccaria 1 neutral 1 citation
The Gospel of Matthew's statement about those who make themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven is cited as the scriptural text Origen interpreted literally.
Matthew, which says, There be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake.
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in the voice of Christ
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Protrepticus Clement of Alexandria 1 citation
Embeds the Matthean invitation as Christ's own direct speech.
It is time, then, for us to say that the pious man alone is rich and sober and well-born, and in this respect an image of God with the likeness, and to declare and believe that, having become just and holy with prudence through Christ Jesus, he is to this extent already like even to God.
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Adversus Marcionem Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation
Corresponding citation_quote for the citation of the Gospel of Matthew.
For also in the gospel of Matthew, "He who shall dismiss," he says, "his wife, except for the cause of adultery, makes her commit adultery.
book 4 ¶ -
in the voice of Jesus Christ
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De Carnis Resurrectione Tertullian 1 citation
Jesus' words are directly quoted to prove the flesh's implication in thought.
And so far is it from being the soul alone that transacts life, that we cannot remove even thoughts — though they be solitary, though not carried through into effect by the flesh — from the partnership of the flesh;
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De Patientia Tertullian 1 citation
Corresponds to the citation of the prophetic attestation about Christ's gentleness.
the bruised reed he did not break, the smoking flax he did not quench.
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De Pudicitia Tertullian 1 citation
Direct quotation and close argument over its wording in chapter 21.
If it is because the Lord said to Peter, "Upon this rock I will build my Church;
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Law in a Free State Wordsworth Donisthorpe 1 citation
The Gospel verse is directly quoted and cited by chapter and verse as authority for the classical standing of 'let be.'
“The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him” (Matt, xxvii.
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