Anti-Marcion

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Introduction, by the American Editor.

^[5310] According to the promise of a prophet of the Creator. See Hab. ii. 4.

^[5311] Gal. iii. 26.

^[5312] Gal. iii. 7, 9, 29.

^[5313] Gal. iii. 6.

^[5314] Magis proinde: as sharing in the faith he had, “being yet uncircumcised.” See Rom. iv. 11.

^[5315] Patris fidei.

^[5316] In integritate carnis.

^[5317] Denique.

^[5318] Formam: “plan” or “arrangement.”

^[5319] Alterius dei…dei alterius.

^[5320] Revincatur.

^[5321] Ipso sensu.

Chapter IV.—Another Instance of Marcion’s Tampering with St. Paul’s Text. The Fulness of Time, Announced by the Apostle, Foretold by the Prophets. Mosaic Rites Abrogated by the Creator Himself. Marcion’s Tricks About Abraham’s Name. The Creator, by His Christ, the Fountain of the Grace and the Liberty Which St. Paul Announced. Marcion’s Docetism Refuted.

^[5322] This apparent quotation is in fact a patching together of two sentences from Gal. 3.15; 4.3 (Fr. Junius). “If I may be allowed to guess from the manner in which Tertullian expresseth himself, I should imagine that Marcion erased the whole of chap. iii. after the word λέγω in Gal. 3.15-4.3. Then the words will be connected thus: ‘Brethren, I speak after the manner of men…when we were children we were in bondage under the elements of the world; but when the fulness of time was come, God sent forth His Son.’ This is precisely what the argument of Tertullian requires, and they are the very words which he connects together” (Lardner, Hist. of Heretics, x. 43). Dr. Lardner, touching Marcion’s omissions in this chap. iii. of the Epistle to the Galatians, says: “He omitted Gal. 3.6-8, in order to get rid of the mention of Abraham, and of the gospel having been preached to him.” This he said after St. Jerome, and then adds: “He ought also to have omitted part of Gal. 3.9, σὺν τῷ πιστῷ ᾽Αβραάμ, which seems to have been the case, according to T.’s manner of stating the argument against him” (Works, History of Heretics, x. 43).

^[5323] Exemplum.

^[5324] Suspicit.

^[5325] Gal. iii. 15. This, of course, is consistent in St. Paul’s argument. Marcion, however, by erasing all the intervening verses, and affixing the phrase “after the manner of men” to the plain assertion of Gal. iv. 3, reduces the whole statement to an absurdity.

^[5326] Gal. iii. 16.

^[5327] Erubescat.

^[5328] So, instead of pursuing the contents of Gal. 3., he proceeds to such of Gal. 4. as Marcion reserved.

^[5329] Gal. iv. 4.

^[5330] In extremitatem temporum.

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