Anti-Marcion

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^[2277] i.e., the Scriptures of the New Testament.

Chapter XLI.—The Conduct of Heretics: Its Frivolity, Worldliness, and Irregularity. The Notorious Wantonness of Their Women.

^[2278] Conversationis.

^[2279] See Matt. vii. 6.

^[2280] Lenocinium. “Pandering” is Archdeacon Dodgson’s word.

^[2281] Miscent.

^[2282] Edocti.

^[2283] Repromittere.

^[2284] Compare Tertullian’s tract, de Bapt. I. and de Veland. Virg. viii. [Also, Epiphan. iv. p. 453, Ed. Oehler.]

^[2285] Temerariæ.

^[2286] They were constantly changing their ministers. It was a saying of the heretics, “Alius hodie episcopus, cras alius” (Rigalt.).

^[2287] Sæculo obstrictos.

^[2288] Promereri est.

Chapter XLII.—Heretics Work to Pull Down and to Destroy, Not to Edify and Elevate. Heretics Do Not Adhere Even to Their Own Traditions, But Harbour Dissent Even from Their Own Founders.

^[2289] Non parent.

^[2290] Enim. [e.g. The Trent system of Unity, alas! is of this sort.]

^[2291] Hence the saying, “Wasps make combs, so Marcionites make churches” (see our Anti-Marcion, p. 187); describing the strangeness and uselessness of the societies, not (as Gibbon said) their number (Dodgson).

^[2292] Sua in vilitate. Another reading, pronounced corrupt by Oehler, has “quasi sibi latæ vagantur,” q.d. “All for themselves, as it were, they wander” etc. (Dodgson).

Chapter XLIII.—Loose Company Preferred by Heretics. Ungodliness the Effect of Their Teaching the Very Opposite of Catholic Truth, Which Promotes the Fear of God, Both in Religious Ordinances and Practical Life.

^[2293] Scilicet.

^[2294] Ps. cxi. 10; Prov. i. 7.

^[2295] Attonita, as if in fear that it might go wrong (Rigalt.).

^[2296] In contrast to the opposite fault of the heresies exposed above.

^[2297] Deliberata, where the character was well weighed previous to admission to the eucharist.

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