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

Work	Passage	Greek textual indicators of Ammonian-style pericope / unit use	Strength as witness for Ammonius-style unit thinking
Origen, Commentary on Matthew	17.29 (Mt 22:23–33 framed; Sadducees; “that day”; synoptic equivalents; pericope-sequence in Mt 21–22)	(1) Explicit boundary-bracketing in Ammonian style: “Ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ … καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς, ἕως τοῦ … (ματτη. 22, 23–33).” This is pericope-definition by incipit + ‘and what follows’ + terminus, plus the canonical range. (2) Explicit “equivalent-pericope” mapping across the synoptics: “τὰ δὲ ἰσοδυναμοῦντα τούτοις ἢ τὰ αὐτὰ αὐτοῖς εἴρηται καὶ παρὰ τῷ Μάρκῳ καὶ τῷ Λουκᾷ ἐν ἄλλαις κατ’ ὀλίγα λέξεσιν.” That is essentially a prose definition of “parallel section”: same content, different micro-phrasing. (3) Pericope-sequence reasoning to interpret a temporal incipit: he interrogates the unit marker “Ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ· ποίᾳ;” and anchors it by narratively adjacent units—tax question (κῆνσος) → Sadducees (resurrection) → Pharisee testing (great commandment) → Jesus’ counter-question (“περὶ τοῦ Χριστοῦ”). This is “chain-of-units” logic rather than ad hoc quoting. (4) Meta-commentary that treats the narrative as a run of discrete Q/A blocks: “σχεδὸν πᾶσα ἡ… διδασκαλία… πρὸς πεύσεις ἐγίνετο,” followed by ordinal structuring (“δευτέρα… τρίτη… τετάρτη ἐπερώτησις”). That is precisely the kind of macro-organization that section tables formalize.	Very strong (9/10) — this is near-ideal evidence for pericope-unit thinking: explicit bracketing, explicit synoptic equivalence language, and an overt pericope-order outline that uses adjacency of units to interpret “that day.”