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Matthew 21:44 — King James Version← Study notes

And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.


Matthew 21:44Greek Interlinear

Greek · Matthew 21:4415 words
GreekMeaning
ΚαὶKai
AndwordG2532
ho
the onearticleG3588
πεσὼνpesōn
having fallenverbG4098
ἐπὶepi
onprepositionG1909
τὸνton
thearticleG3588
λίθονlithon
stonenounG3037
τοῦτονtouton
thisdemonstrativeG3778
συνθλασθήσεταιsynthlasthēsetai
will be brokenverbG4917
ἐφ’eph’
onprepositionG1909
ὃνhon
whomeverrelative pronounG3739
δ’d’
butwordG1161
ἂνan
maybeparticleG302
πέσῃpesē
it may fallverbG4098
λικμήσειlikmēsei
it will grind to powderverbG3039
αὐτόνauton
himpronounG846
Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.

Church Fathers on Matthew 21:44

The design of this further parable is to shew that their guilt was heinous, and unworthy to be forgiven.

Chrysostom · 4th century · Hom, lxviii

The householder is God, who in some parables is represented as a man. As it were a father condescending to the infant lisp of his little child, in order to instruct him.

Origen · 3rd century

He is called man, by title, not by nature; in a kind of likeness, not in verity. For the Son knowing that by occasion of His human name He himself should be blasphemed as though he were mere man, spoke therefore of the Invisible God the Father as man; He who by nature is Lord of Angels and men, but by goodness their Father.

Pseudo-Chrysostom · 5th century
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