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

Work	Passage	Greek textual indicators of Ammonian-style pericope / unit use	Strength as witness for Ammonius-style unit thinking
Origen, Commentary on Matthew	11.12 (Matt 15:10–20)	Origen opens with a clear incipit + unit span formula: «Καὶ προσκαλεσάμενος τὸν ὄχλον… καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς (15, 10–20)», treating Matt 15:10–20 as a single bounded pericope rather than a sequence of verses. The phrase καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς functions as shorthand for an indexed unit whose internal contents are presupposed. Within this established unit, Origen introduces Mark explicitly as a parallel control: «ἐν τῷ κατὰ τὸν Μᾶρκον… “καθαρίζων πάντα τὰ βρώματα”». The Markan phrase is not used to resolve a textual variant in Matthew, but to supply an interpretive gloss for the Matthean unit as a whole. No alternative Matthean readings are noted, and Mark does not expose Matthean plurality; instead, Mark is used canonically to fix the meaning and scope of the pericope (“not what enters, but what exits”).	Moderate — this passage shows pericope-level thinking (incipit + span, unit-based exegesis, parallel-Gospel control), consistent with Ammonian-style practice, but not diagnostic of textual plurality. Unlike 12.15, Mark does not reveal a different Matthean reading; he functions as an interpretive headnote for a stable unit rather than as a control for variant alignment.