Anti-Marcion

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^[5918] On this paradox, that souls are corporeal, see his treatise De Anima, v., and following chapters (Oehler). [See also cap. x. supra.]

^[5919] Quæ = caro.

Chapter XVI.—The Second Epistle to the Thessalonians. An Absurd Erasure of Marcion; Its Object Transparent. The Final Judgment on the Heathen as Well as the Jews Could Not Be Administered by Marcion’s Christ. The Man of Sin—What? Inconsistency of Marcion’s View. The Antichrist. The Great Events of the Last Apostasy Within the Providence and Intention of the Creator, Whose are All Things from the Beginning. Similarity of the Pauline Precepts with Those of the Creator.

^[5920] Circumferri.

^[5921] Utriusque meriti: “of both the eternal sentences.”

^[5922] 2 Thess. i. 6-8.

^[5923] 2 Thess. i. 8, 9.

^[5924] Crematoris Dei.

^[5925] 2 Thess. i. 8.

^[5926] Non omnibus scibilis.

^[5927] 2 Thess. i. 9.

^[5928] Isa. ii. 19. The whole verse is to the point.

^[5929] 2 Thess. ii. 3, 4.

^[5930] The prophets of the Old and the New Testament.

^[5931] 1 John iv. 1-3.

^[5932] Solventes Jesum. This expression receives some explanation from the Vulgate version of 1 John iv. 3: “Et omnis spiritus qui solvit Jesum Christum ex Deo non est.” From Irenæus, Vol. I., 443 (Harvey, ii. 89), we learn that the Gnostics divided Jesus from Christ: “Alterum quidem Jesum intelligunt, alterum autem Christum,”—an error which was met in the clause of the creed expressing faith in “One Lord Jesus Christ.” Grabe, after Socrates, Hist. Eccles. vii. 32, says that the oldest mss. of St. John’s epistle read πᾶν πνεῦμα ὅ λύει τὸν ᾽Ιησοῦν. If so, Tertullian must be regarded as combining the two readings, viz., that which we find in the received text and this just quoted. Thus Grabe. It would be better to say that T. read John 4.2 as we have it, only omitting ᾽Ιησοῦν; and in John 4.3 read the old lection to which Socrates refers instead of πᾶν πνεῦμα ὅ μὴ ὁμολογεὶ.

^[5933] 2 Thess. ii. 9.

^[5934] Instinctum fallaciæ.

^[5935] 2 Thess. ii. 10-12.

^[5936] Summissu erroris.

^[5937] Marcion, or rather his Christ, who on the hypothesis absurdly employs the Creator’s Christ on the flagrantly inconsistent mission of avenging his truth, i.e. Marcionism.

^[5938] Habens fungi…Creatori.

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