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Anti-Marcion
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Introduction, by the American Editor.
[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).
[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.
[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.
[2305] Recogitavi.
[2306] Turpe.
[2307] Capit.
[2308] Exorbitant.
[2309] Cavent.
[2310] This sense comes from the “repellendas” and the “a collatione Scripturarum.”
[2311] Specialiter. He did this, indeed, in his treatises against Marcion, Hermogenes, the Valentinians, Praxeas, and others. [These are to follow in this Series. Kaye (p. 47) justly considered this sentence as proving the De Præscript, a preface to all his treatises against particular heresies.]
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