Matthew 22:36
Douay-Rheims
Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law?
Origen
He said Master tempting Him, for none but a disciple would thus address Christ. Whoever then does not learn of the Word, nor yields himself wholly up to it, yet calls it Master, he is brother to this Pharisee thus tempting Christ. Perhaps while they read the Law before the Saviour’s coming, it was a question among them which was the great commandment in it; nor would the Pharisee have asked this, if it had not been long time enquired among themselves, but never found till Jesus came and declared it.
Source details
A.D. 253 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 22:34-40
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.