Origen, COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, Part II, Complete

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But they were not in symphony in earth who said, "I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ," [6056] but there were schisms among them, upon the dissolution of which they were gathered together in company with the spirit in Paul, with the power of the Lord Jesus Christ, [6057] that they might no longer "bite and devour one another so that they were consumed by one another;" [6058] for discord consumes, as concord brings together, and admits [6059] the Son of God who comes in the midst of those who have become at concord. And strictly, indeed, concord takes place in two things generic, through the perfecting together, as the Apostle has called it, of the same mind by an intellectual grasp of the same opinions, and through the perfecting together of the same judgment, by a like way of living. But if whenever two of us agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of the Father of Jesus who is in heaven, [6060] plainly when this is not done for them of the Father in heaven as touching anything that they shall ask, there the two have not been in agreement on earth; and this is the cause why we are not heard when we pray, that we do not agree with one another on earth, neither in opinions nor in life. But further also if we are the body of Christ and God hath set the members each one of them in the body that the members may have the same care one for another, and may agree with one another, and when one member suffers, all the members suffer with it, and if one be glorified, they rejoice with it, [6061] we ought to practise the symphony which springs from the divine music, that when we are gathered together in the name of Christ, He may be in the midst of us, the Word of God, and the Wisdom of God, and His Power. [6062]

[6056] 1 Cor. i. 12.

[6057] 1 Cor. v. 4.

[6058] Gal. v. 15.

[6059] Or reading chorizei, following the Vetus Inter, keeps apart.

[6060] Matt. xviii. 19.

[6061] 1 Cor. xii. 25, 18, 25, 26.

[6062] 1 Cor. i. 24.

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