ACC ~ Matthew 22 v46

NONE DARED QUESTION HIM

ORIGEN: And so Matthew added, “No one was able to say a word to him, and no one dared from that hour to ask him anything.” The reason, however, that they had not dared to ask him even another word was this, that having been asked themselves, they could not respond. For if their question had come from a desire to learn, then they would never have proposed their questions to him. They dared not ask him anything now. For they were asking him only as tempters, and for this reason he wanted to confuse them by their own question so that, blushing, they might back away from his directness and thereafter ask him nothing further. We have spoken these things according to an understanding of the plain sense of the text. COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW 5. [1]

[1] GCS 38.2:10.

NO MORE QUESTIONS

JEROME: The Pharisees and Sadducees had been looking for an opportunity for deceiving him, looking to find some word that might be taken advantage of by the plotters. Yet they had been totally confounded in their conversations. So they asked nothing further. What did they do then? All they could do was turn him over to the custody of the Roman authorities. From this we learn that the faults of the jealous are indeed able to be overcome but are difficult to put to rest. COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW 4.22.46. [1]

[1] CCL 77:210.