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

Work	Passage	Greek textual indicators of Ammonian-style pericope / unit use	Strength as witness for Ammonius-style unit thinking
Origen, Commentary on Matthew	16.4 (Zebedee request: Matt 20:20–24 // Mark 10:35–41)	Origen anchors the unit in Matthew with an incipit + “and the following” + hard terminus: “Τότε προσῆλθεν… … καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς ἕως τοῦ ἀκούσαντες δὲ οἱ δέκα ἠγανάκτησαν…”. He then declares the aligned Markan unit explicitly as “the similar thing”: “τὸ δ’ ὅμοιον αὐτῷ καὶ ὁ Μᾶρκος ἀνέγραψε…”, and he repeats the same unit-bounding mechanics with a Markan incipit plus endpoint formula: Mark incipit (“καὶ προσπορεύονται αὐτῷ Ἰάκωβος καὶ Ἰωάννης…”) + “καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς ἕως τοῦ…” ending at the indignation terminus (“ἤρξαντο ἀγανακτεῖν…”). The striking feature is his handling of the surface divergence (mother in Matthew / sons in Mark) as a simple alternative narration, not an internal Matthean textual issue: “ἡ μήτηρ… (ἢ ὡς ὁ Μᾶρκος ἀνέγραψεν Ἰάκωβος καὶ Ἰωάννης)”—i.e., the unit remains stable while narratorial roles vary across evangelists. After the unit is aligned, he shifts register into a planned interpretive procedure, again signaled as method rather than textual correction: “Ἄξιον… ζητῆσαι νοῦν…” and then the συλλογὴ/παράθεσις program: “συνακτέον… … καὶ παραθέσει αὐτῶν πρὸς ἄλληλα…”.	Very Strong (10/10) — the passage is a clean specimen of (i) pericope delimitation, (ii) synoptic pericope matching by incipit/terminus, and (iii) methodological escalation from aligned pericope → συλλογὴ/παράθεσις.