Anti-Marcion

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^[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.

^[2298] Apparitio, the duty and office of an apparitor, or attendant on men of higher rank, whether in church or state.

Chapter XLIV.—Heresy Lowers Respect for Christ, and Destroys All Fear of His Great Judgment. The Tendency of Heretical Teaching on This Solemn Article of the Faith. The Present Treatise an Introduction to Certain Other Anti-Heretical Works of Our Author.

^[2299] 2 Cor. v. 10.

^[2300] Scævis.

^[2301] Futuris.

^[2302] It seems to us, that this is the force of the strong irony, indicated by the “credo,” which pervades this otherwise unintelligible passage. Dodgson’s version seems untenable: “Let them (the heretics) acknowledge that the fault is with themselves rather than with those who prepared us so long beforehand.”

^[2303] Christ and His apostles, as before, in continuation of the strong irony.

^[2304] This must be the force of a sentence which is steeped in irony: “Scilicet cum vos non crederetis.” We are indebted to Oehler for restoring the sentence thus.

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