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Introduction, by the American Editor.

[2319] He has also, as the reader will observe, endeavoured to distinguish, by the help of type, between the true God and Marcion’s god, printing the initials of the former, and of the pronouns referring to Him, in capitals, and those of the latter in small letters. To do this was not always an easy matter, for in many passages the argument amalgamates the two. Moreover, in the earlier portion of the work the translator fears that he may have occasionally neglected to make the distinction.

Book I. Wherein is described the god of Marcion. He is shown to be utterly wanting in all the attributes of the true God.

[2320] [Written A.D. 207. See Chapter xv. infra. In cap. xxix. is the token of Montanism which denotes his impending lapse.]

Chapter I.—Preface. Reason for a New Work. Pontus Lends Its Rough Character to the Heretic Marcion, a Native. His Heresy Characterized in a Brief Invective.

[2321] Retro.

[2322] Jam hinc viderit.

[2323] Ex vetere.

[2324] Fratris.

[2325] Stilus.

[2326] De.

[2327] [Euxine=hospitable. One recalls Shakespeare:

—“Like to the Pontick Sea

Whose icy current and compulsive force

Ne’er feels retiring ebb.”—Othel.]

[2328] Cruda.

[2329] De jugo. See Strabo (Bohn’s trans.), vol. ii. p. 247.

[2330] Duritia.

[2331] Libens.

[2332] Exaggerantur.

[2333] Calet.

[2334] [Iphigenia of Euripides.]

[2335] [See the Medea of Euripides.]

[2336] [Prometheus of Æschylus.]

[2337] Hamaxobio. This Sarmatian clan received its name ῾Αμαξόβιοι from its gypsy kind of life.

[2338] [I fancy there is point in this singular, the sky of Pontus being always overcast. Cowper says:

“There is but one cloud in the sky,

But that doth the welkin invest,” etc.

[2339] Quidni.

 

 

 

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