The Five Books Against Marcion — Book 2, Chapter 28

1

Tenebrosus. Cicero, De finibus, ii. says: “Heraclitus qui cognomento Σκοτεινὸς perhibetur, quia de natura nimis obscure memoravit.”

2

Sursam et deorsum. An allusion to Heraclitus’ doctrine of constant change, flux and reflux, out of which all things came. Καὶ τὴν μεταβολὴν ὁδὸν ἄνω κάτω, τόν τε κόσμον γίνεσθαι κατὰ ταύτην, κ.τ.λ. “Change is the way up and down; the world comes into being thus,” etc. (Diogenes Laertius, ix. 8).

3

Sententias.

4

Dissimulationes.

5

Non nisi emendata.

6

Non repercussus.

7

Mentitum.

8

Non verum. An allusion to the Docetism of Marcion.

9

Nihil deliquit in Christum, that is, Marcion’s Christ.

10

Paucis amat.

Book 2 · Chapter 28

Chapter XXVIII.—The Tables Turned Upon Marcion, by Contrasts, in Favour of the True God.

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