22:22 And I will give
him the glory of David, and he shall rule and there shall be none to speak
against him; and I will give him the key of the house of David upon his
shoulder, and he shall open and there shall be none to shut, and he shall shut
and there shall be none to open.
In this passage are prefigured
also the realities that are ours:” What you bind on earth,” he says, “will be
bound in heaven, and what you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” (Theodoret
of Cyrrhus, Commentary on Isaiah [trans. Gerald L. Bray; Ancient
Christian Texts; Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Academic, 2026], 77-78)
The following is taken from Théodoret de. Cyr, Commentaire sur Isaïe, ed. Jean-Noël
Guinot, 3 vols. (Sources Chrétiennes
295; Cerf, 1982), 2:166, 168:
Here is a transcription:
²² Καὶ δώσω τὴν δόξαν Δαυὶδ αὐτῷ,
καὶ ἄρξει, καὶ οὐκ ἔσται ὁ ἀντιλέγων· καὶ δώσω αὐτῷ τὴν κλεῖδα οἴκου Δαυὶδ ἐπὶ
τοῦ ὤμου αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀνοίξει, καὶ οὐδεὶς κλείσει, ⟨καὶ κλείσει,⟩
καὶ οὐκ ἔσται ὁ ἀνοίγων. Ἐν τούτῳ καὶ τὰ ἡμέτερα προτυποῦται. «Ὃ ἂν δήσητε» γάρ
φησιν «ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ἔσται δεδεμένον ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς· καὶ ὃ ἐὰν λύσητε ἐπὶ τῆς
γῆς, ἔσται λελυμένον ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς.»
As one can see, Theodoret is not quoting from Matt 16:19,
which uses singulars, but Matt 18:18, which uses plurals:
Ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν· ὅσα ἐὰν δήσητε ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἔσται
δεδεμένα ἐν οὐρανῷ, καὶ ὅσα ἐὰν λύσητε ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἔσται λελυμένα ἐν οὐρανῷ.
