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Anti-Marcion
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Introduction, by the American Editor.
[5192] Cum cognoveris unde sit.
[5193] Materiam.
[5194] We have already more than once referred to Marcion’s preference for St. Paul. “The reason of the preference thus given to that apostle was his constant and strenuous opposition to the Judaizing Christians, who wished to reimpose the yoke of the Jewish ceremonies on the necks of their brethren. This opposition the Marcionites wished to construe into a direct denial of the authority of the Mosaic law. They contended also from St. Paul’s assertion, that he received his appointment to the apostolic office not from man, but from Christ, that he alone delivered the genuine doctrines of the gospel. This deference for St. Paul accounts also for Marcion’s accepting St. Luke’s Gospel as the only authentic one, as we saw in the last book of this treatise; it was because that evangelist had been the companion of St. Paul” (Bp. Kaye, On the Writings of Tertullian, 3d edition, pp. 474–475).
[5195] Novus aliqui discipulus.
[5196] Interim.
[5197] Temere.
[5198] Agnitione.
[5199] Ad sollicitudinem.
[5200] In albo.
[5201] Ex incursu: in allusion to St. Paul’s sudden conversion, Acts ix. 3-8. [On St. Paul’s Epistles, see p. 324, supra.]
[5202] Marcion is frequently called “Ponticus Nauclerus,” probably less on account of his own connection with a seafaring life, than that of his countrymen, who were great sailors. Comp. book. i. 18. (sub fin.) and book iii. 6. [pp. 284, 325.]
[5203] In acatos tuas.
[5204] Quo symbolo.
[5205] Quis illum tituli charactere percusserit.
[5206] Quis transmiserit tibi.
[5207] Quis imposuerit.
[5208] Constanter.
[5209] Ne illius probetur, i.e., to the Catholic, for Marcion did not admit all St. Paul’s epistles (Semler).
[5210] Omnia apostolatus ejus instrumenta.
[5212] Subscribit.
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