The Five Books Against Marcion — Book 4, Chapter 2

1

Expeditam a nobis.

2

[The term εὐαγγέλιον was often employed for a written book, says Kaye (p. 298), who refers to Book i. cap. 1. supra, etc.]

3

Interim, perhaps “occasionally.”

4

Præstructuram.

5

Instrumentum. [See cap. 1, supra. And, above, note 9. Also in cap. iii. and the Apology, (cap. xlvii.) he calls the Testaments, Digests, or Sancta Digesta.]

6

By this canon of his, that the true Gospels must have for their authors either apostles or companions and disciples of apostles, he shuts out the false Gospels of the heretics, such as the Ebionites, Encratites, Nazarenes, and Marcionites (Le Prieur).

7

Apostolicos, companions of the apostles associated in the authorship.

8

He means, of course, St. Mark and St. Luke.

9

Adsistat illi.

10

Immo Christi.

11

Insinuant.

12

Instaurant.

13

Isdem regulis.

14

Supplementum.

15

Viderit.

16

De capite.

17

Scilicet.

18

Evertere.

19

Congredi.

20

Dissimulamus.

21

Ex nostro.

22

Compare Irenæus, Adversus Hæreses (Harvey), i. 25 and iii. 11; also Epiphanius, Hær. xlii. See also the editor’s notes on the passages in Irenæus, who quotes other authorities also, and shows the particulars of Marcion’s mutilations. [Vol. I. 429.]

23

Quem cæderet.

24

Posterior.

25

See Hieronymi, Catal. Scriptt. Eccles. 7, and Fabricius’ notes.

26

Instrumenti.

27

Gal. ii. 2.

28

[Dr. Holmes not uniformly, yet constantly inserts the prefix St. before the name of Paul, and brackets it, greatly disfiguring the page. It is not in our author’s text, but I venture to dispense with the ever-recurring brackets.]

Book 4 · Chapter 2

Chapter II.—St. Luke’s Gospel, Selected by Marcion as His Authority, and Mutilated by Him. The Other Gospels Equally Authoritative. Marcion’s Terms of Discussion, However, Accepted, and Grappled with on the Footing of St. Luke’s Gospel Alone.

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