Origen's Use of Ammonius in Commentary on Matthew [Part Twenty]

Work	Passage	Greek textual indicators of Ammonian-style pericope / unit use	Strength as witness for Ammonius-style unit thinking
Origen, Commentary on Matthew	16.1–16.2 (Road-to-Jerusalem prediction: Matt 20:17–19 // Mark 10:32–34 // Luke 18:31–34)	Origen first delimits a Matthean unit by incipit + “and the following” + hard terminus: “Μέλλων δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἀναβαίνειν εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα… καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς ἕως τοῦ… καὶ τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ ἀναστήσεται (…17–19)”. He then aligns the Markan counterpart using explicit equivalence language (not derivation): “τὰ δὲ ἰσοδυναμοῦντα τούτοις καὶ παρὰ τῷ Μάρκῳ ἀναγέγραπται…”, gives a Markan incipit (“ἦσαν δὲ ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ ἀναβαίνοντες…”) and again bounds it with “καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς ἕως τοῦ…”, ending at the same prediction terminus (“καὶ τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ ἀναστήσεται”). Then he triangulates with Luke via a second agreement marker: “καὶ ὁ Λουκᾶς δὲ δόξει τούτοις συνᾴδειν γράψας…”, again incipit + bounded continuation (“παραλαβὼν δὲ τοὺς δώδεκα…” … “καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς ἕως τοῦ… καὶ οὐκ ἐγίνωσκον τὰ λεγόμενα”). Only after this synoptic unit-alignment does Origen pivot into paraenesis (Paul imitating Christ) and then, at 16.2, he explicitly signals a commentary-scope restriction rather than a priority claim: “ἐπεὶ τὸ κατὰ Ματθαῖον πρόκειται νῦν ἐξετάζειν…”—i.e., “since Matthew is what lies before us to examine now,” he narrows to Matthean internal sequencing (Judas not yet “accused” except in the list).	Very Strong (10/10) — the passage is an unusually technical example of (i) pericope delimitation by ἕως τοῦ endpoints, (ii) explicit unit equivalence (ἰσοδυναμοῦντα) and agreement (συνᾴδειν) across all three Synoptics, and (iii) a conscious shift from synoptic alignment to Matthean-only micro-reading flagged as scope (“κατὰ Ματθαῖον … ἐξετάζειν”).