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

Work	Passage	Greek textual indicators of Ammonian-style pericope / unit use	Strength as witness for Ammonius-style unit thinking
Origen, Commentary on Matthew	Unit-bounding + synoptic alignment + catena launch (Zebedee request complex)	Origen defines the Matthean unit by a hard endpoint using the classic boundary shorthand: “καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς ἕως τοῦ …” with an explicit terminus clause (“ἀκούσαντες δὲ οἱ δέκα ἠγανάκτησαν…”). He then maps the whole bounded episode to Mark as a bounded episode, not as a single-verse parallel: “τὸ δ’ ὅμοιον αὐτῷ καὶ ὁ Μᾶρκος ἀνέγραψε…” followed by Markan incipit + “καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς ἕως τοῦ …” ending at the matching indignation endpoint (“ἤρξαντο ἀγανακτεῖν…”). This is boundary-to-boundary alignment. Immediately after the unit is fixed, Origen signals an exegetical escalation (“Ἄξιον… ζητῆσαι νοῦν…”) and then announces a collection-and-parataxis method that presupposes the unit as the anchor: “συνακτέον τὰ περὶ καθίσεων… καὶ παραθέσει αὐτῶν πρὸς ἄλληλα…”. When he returns to the Gospels inside the catena, he uses formal equivalence language rather than dependence language: “τὸ δὲ ἰσοδυναμοῦν… καὶ ὁ Μᾶρκος ἀνέγραψεν…” and “ὁ Λουκᾶς δὲ τὸ ὅμοιον φησιν…”. The whole sequence is: pericope bounded → synoptic pericope matched → doctrinal συλλογή launched from the fixed unit.	Very Strong (10/10) — this is as explicit as Origen gets: he both delimits and cross-indexes an episode using incipit/terminus shorthand (“καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς ἕως…”) and then treats Matthew/Mark/Luke as isodynamic/“similar” witnesses to that same unit.