Anti-Marcion

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^[2509] In this and the following sentences, the reader will observe the distinction which is drawn between the Supreme and good God of Marcion and his “Creator,” or Demiurge.

^[2510] Subsiciva.

^[2511] Stipare se.

^[2512] Molitus est.

^[2513] Sentire.

^[2514] Subicit.

^[2515] The Supreme and good God. Tertullian here gives it as one of Marcion’s tenets, that the Demiurge created the World out of pre-existent matter.

^[2516] Interim.

^[2517] Proinde et.

^[2518] Assignet.

^[2519] Namely, (1) the supreme and good God; (2) His Christ; (3) the space in which He dwells; (4) the matter of His creation; (5) the Demiurge (or Marcion’s “Creator”); (6) his promised Christ; (7) the space which contains him; (8) this world, his creation; (9) evil, inherent in it.

Chapter XVI.—Marcion Assumes the Existence of Two Gods from the Antithesis Between Things Visible and Things Invisible. This Antithetical Principle in Fact Characteristic of the Works of the Creator, the One God—Maker of All Things Visible and Invisible.

^[2520] Consequens est ut.

^[2521] Defendant.

^[2522] Col. i. 16.

^[2523] Nunc enim. The elliptical νῦν γάρ of Greek argumentation.

^[2524] Modulata.

^[2525] “I make peace, and create evil,” Isa. xlv. 7.

Chapter XVII.—Not Enough, as the Marcionites Pretend, that the Supreme God Should Rescue Man; He Must Also Have Created Him. The Existence of God Proved by His Creation, a Prior Consideration to His Character.

^[2526] To depreciate the Creator’s work the more, Marcion (and Valentinus too) used to attribute to Him the formation of all the lower creatures—worms, locusts, etc.—reserving the mightier things to the good and supreme God. See St. Jerome’s Proem. in Epist. ad Philem. [See, Stier, Words of Jesus, Vol. vi. p. 81.]

^[2527] Dinoscetur.

^[2528] Quo necessarior.

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