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English
Etymology
A convergent abbreviation of the English Matthew and of its Latin equivalent Matthaeus.
Proper noun
Matth.
- (biblical abbreviation) Matthew (Gospel of Matthew)
- 1846, Richard Trench, Christ the Desire of All Nations?, quoted in: John Brown, Discourses and Sayings of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Illustrated in a Series of Expositions (second edition, 1854), volume I, exposition iv: “The Sermon on the Mount”, note i: ‘Reference of the word πονηροὶ, Matth. vii. 11, Trench’, page 305:
- “Augustine observes how those who are addressed here as ‘being evil,’ are the very same into whose mouths but just now the Lord has put that word, ‘Our Father;’ to whom he has made the promise ‘Ask and it shall be given you;’ so that every faithful, i. e., believing man, has a double aspect, he is ‘evil’ through his old nature, he is good through participation with him who is the highest good, who is in some sense the alone good (Matth. xix. 17), the good in himself, and altogether good, while others are good through him, and only as they are sharers of his life.
Translations
abbreviation of Gospel of Matthew