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Anti-Marcion
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Introduction, by the American Editor.
[3132] Atquin.
[3133] Vanus.
[3134] The reader will remember that Tertullian is here arguing on Marcion’s ground, according to whom the Creator’s Christ, the Christ predicted through the O.T., was yet to come. Marcion’s Christ, however, had proved himself so weak to stem the Creator’s course, that he had no means really of checking the Creator’s Christ from coming. It had been better, adds Tertullian, if Marcion’s Christ had waited for the Creator’s Christ to have first appeared.
[3135] Marcion’s Christ.
[3136] Emendare.
[3137] Revocare.
[3138] Aut si.
[3139] Posterior emendator futurus: an instance of Tertullian’s style in paradox.
[3140] Vero.
[3141] Redarguens.
[3142] Si forte.
Chapter V.—Sundry Features of the Prophetic Style: Principles of Its Interpretation.
[3143] Proluserim.
[3144] [An important principle, see Kaye, p. 325.]
[3145] Familiare.
[3146] Expunctum.
[3147] Isa. 50.6, slightly altered.
[3149] Ex. iii. 8, 17; Deut. xxvi. 9, 15.
[3150] Isa. xli. 18, 19, inexactly quoted.
[3151] Relaturus.
[3152] Hæreticorum apostolus. We have already referred to Marcion’s acceptance of St. Paul’s epistles. It has been suggested that Tertullian in the text uses hæreticorum apostolus as synonymous with ethnicorum apostolus="apostle of the Gentiles,” in which case allusion to St. Paul would of course be equally clear. But this interpretation is unnecessary.
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