Anti-Marcion

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^[7291] Recidivatum.

^[7292] Corporalem.

Chapter II.—The Jewish Sadducees a Link Between the Pagan Philosophers and the Heretics on This Doctrine. Its Fundamental Importance Asserted. The Soul Fares Better Than the Body, in Heretical Estimation, as to Its Future State. Its Extinction, However, Was Held by One Lucan.

^[7293] Apud Deum.

^[7294] Sciemus.

^[7295] Salutem.

^[7296] Eam solidam.

^[7297] In sacramentis.

^[7298] In prædicationibus: “in the declarations of the prophets.”

^[7299] Scrupulis.

^[7300] See books ii. and iii. of our Anti-Marcion.

^[7301] He means the De Carne Christi.

^[7302] Tanquam penes nos quoque incerta, id est penes Creatorem. This obscure clause is very variously read. One reading, approved by Fr. Junius, has: “Tanquam penes nos incertum, dum sit quoque certum penes Creatorem,” q.d., “As a subject full of uncertainty as respects ourselves, although of an opposite character in relation to the Creator;” whatever that may mean.

^[7303] Hoc latere.

^[7304] Compare Adv. Omnes Hæreses, c. vi.

^[7305] Varro’s words help us to understand this rough joke: “Ursi Lucana origo,” etc. (De Ling. Lat. v. 100.)

^[7306] Iste: rather his subject than his person.

^[7307] i.e. the De Anima.

Chapter III.—Some Truths Held Even by the Heathen. They Were, However, More Often Wrong Both in Religious Opinions and in Moral Practice. The Heathen Not to Be Followed in Their Ignorance of the Christian Mystery. The Heretics Perversely Prone to Follow Them.

^[7308] Compare the De Test. Anim. ii., and De Anim. xlii.

^[7309] Isa. xliv. 20.

^[7310] 1 Cor. i. 20, iii. 19.

Chapter IV.—Heathens and Heretics Alike in Their Vilification of the Flesh and Its Functions, the Ordinary Cavils Against the Final Restitution of So Weak and Ignoble a Substance.

^[7311] Of the resurrection of the body.

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