Origen, COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW Complete

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But what is the "this"? Was it that also according to him, Peter answered and said to the question, "Who say ye that I am."--"The Christ, the Son of the living God?" [5666] You must know, however, that some manuscripts of the Gospel according to Matthew have, "He charged." [5667] The difficulty thus started seems to me a very real difficulty; but let a solution which cannot be impugned be sought out, and let the finder of it bring it forward before all, if it be more credible than that which shall be advanced by us as a fairly temperate view. [5668] Consider, then, if you can say, that the belief that Jesus is the Christ is inferior to the knowledge of that which is believed. And perhaps also there is a difference in the knowledge of Jesus as the Christ, as every one who knows does not know Him alike. From the words in John, "If ye abide in My word, ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," [5669] it is plain that belief without knowledge is inferior to knowing; but that there is a difference in the knowledge of Jesus as the Christ, as all who know Him do not know Him equally, is a fact self-evident to any one who gives even a very little consideration to the matter.

[5666] Matt. xvi. 15, 16.

[5667] Matt. xvi. 20.

[5668] Or, which he may regard as mediocre.

[5669] John viii. 31, 32.

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