This week's Gospel: The 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time

This week’s Gospel as in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel: The 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Using data publicly available from:
http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/2008/Sep08.shtml
and The Sunday Missal to cross-check.
This Week's Gospel: Matt 18: 15 - 20
(7th-Sept-2008) The 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A

If he listens to you, you have won back your brother.
This reading comprises the majority of the caput below. The prescribed reading ends before the last paragraph thereof, which is here included for completeness. The reading is taken almost entirely from Matthew, with a couple of phrases substituted from Luke.

XCVIII. De remittendo fratribus ex corde.
(Of the forgiving of brothers from the heart.)

98: 1
Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother sin against thee, go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee and he do penance, forgive him, and thou shalt gain thy brother.
2
And if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more: that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand. And if he will not hear them: tell the church. And if also, he will not hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican.
3
Indeed I say to you, whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth, shall be loosed also in heaven. Again I say to you, that if two of you shall consent upon earth, concerning anything whatsoever they shall ask, it shall be done to them by my Father who is in heaven. For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
4
Then came Peter unto him and said: Lord, how often shall my brother offend against me, and I forgive him? until seven times? Jesus saith to him: I would say to thee, not until seven times; but until seventy times seven*.

*‘but until seventy times seven sevens’ – Ancient sources, (incl. Ephraem Syrus), suggest that the word ‘sevens’, missing from later editions should be present. The significance is that the ancient calendar comprised a year of 49 weeks, with 3 or 4 weeks intercalated to keep the year length correct. Only the 49 Sabbaths were considered to be part of the official year. The rite of forgiveness was part of the Sabbath offering, hence 49 times implies every Sabbath in a year, and since the life of man is traditionally 3 score and 10, ie, 70, the number of times you forgive your brother is every week for the whole of his life. The Douay is not imputed here, but rather an omission of an apparent repetition in the Vulgate.

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