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Anti-Marcion
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Introduction, by the American Editor.
[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.
[5213] Actis refert.
[5215] Conversor.
[5216] Jam hinc.
[5217] Gen. xlix. 27, Septuagint, the latter clause being καὶ εἰς τὸ ἑσπέρας δίδωσι τροφήν.
[5218] Satisfactio.
[5219] Non aliud portendebat quam.
[5220] Secundum Virginis censum.
[5221] Figurarum sacramenta.
[5222] Although St. Luke wrote the Acts of the Apostles, Marcion does not seem to have admitted this book into his New Testament. “It is clearly excluded from his catalogue, as given by Epiphanius. The same thing appears from the more ancient authority of Tertullian, who begins his Book v. against Marcion with showing the absurdity of his conduct in rejecting the history and acts of the apostles, and yet receiving St. Paul as the chief of the apostles, whose name is never mentioned in the Gospel with the other apostles, especially since the account given by Paul himself in Gal. i.-ii. confirms the account which we have in the Acts. But the reason why he rejected this book is (as Tertullian says) very evident, since from it we can plainly show that the God of the Christians and the God of the Jews, or the Creator, was the same being and that Christ was sent by Him, and by no other” (Lardner’s Works, Hist. of Heretics, chap. x. sec. 41).
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