The Five Books Against Marcion — Book 4, Chapter 37

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The older reading, which we here follow, is: “Enimvero Zacchæus etsi allophylus fortasse,” etc. Oehler, however, points the passage thus: “Enimvero Zacchæus etsi allophylus, fortasse,” etc., removing the doubt, and making Zacchæus “of another race” than the Jewish, for certain. This is probably more than Tertullian meant to say.

3

Aliqua notitia afflatus.

4

Isa. lviii. 7.

5

In the same passage.

6

For the history of Zacchæus, see Luke xix. 1–10.

7

Isa. lviii. 6.

8

Luke xix. 8.

9

Luke xix. 9.

10

Salutaria esse.

11

Luke xix. 10.

12

Substantiis.

13

Caro: “the flesh,” here a synonym with the corpus of the previous clauses.

14

Elisa est.

15

Secundum rationem feneratæ.

16

Ex parte severitatis.

17

This phrase comes not from the present passage, but from Luke viii. 18, where the words are ὅ δοκεῖ ἔχειν; here the expression is ὅ ἔχει only.

18

Luke xix. 22.

19

The original of this obscure sentence is as follows: “Aut si et hic Creatorem finxerit austerum…..hic quoque me ille instruit eujus pecuniam ut fenerem edocet.

Book 4 · Chapter 37

Chapter XXXVII.—Christ and Zacchæus. The Salvation of the Body as Denied by Marcion. The Parable of the Ten Servants Entrusted with Ten Pounds. Christ a Judge, Who is to Administer the Will of the Austere Man, I.e. The Creator.

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