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These all start with the same principles of the faith, so far as relates to the one only God the Creator, and His Christ, how that He was born of the Virgin, and came to fulfil the law and the prophets. Never mind if there does occur some variation in the order of their narratives, provided that there be agreement in the essential matter of the faith in which there is disagreement with Marcion."
Matt. xiii. 15. Matt. xv. 26. There are of course few quotations that can be distinctly identified as taken from St. Mark, but among these may be noticed: Mark i. 24. Mark ix. 7. The variations in quotations from St. Luke have been perhaps sufficiently illustrated in the chapter on Marcion. We may therefore omit this Gospel and pass to St. John. A very remarkable reading meets us at the outset.
Where Luke makes an insertion in the groundstock of the narrative, there Marcion makes an insertion also; where Luke omits part of the narrative, Marcion does the same. Among the documents peculiar to St. Luke are some of a very marked and individual character, which seem to have come from some private source of information. Again, the mention of Martha and Mary is common only to St.
Philinus having ended his discourse, Marcion said: In my opinion, not only those that separate profit from honesty are obnoxious to Socrates's curse, but those also that separate pleasure from health, as if it were its enemy and opposite, and not its great friend and promoter. Pain we use but seldom and unwillingly, as the most violent instrument.
It had long since been clear to these Catholics and churchmen that, with the mere authority of Scripture, it was not possible to defend Christianity against the heretics. The heresies read their heresies out of the Bible. The orthodox read orthodoxy from the same page. Marcion had proved that, in the very days when the canon took its shape.
Haer. iv. 27. 2; 12. 12. Cf. Volkmar, p. 46. Marcion's, p. 45. We have just the remarkable coincidence spoken of above. The statement is mistaken in regard to Volkmar and Hilgenfeld. Both these writers would make Marcion retain this passage. It happens rather oddly that this is one of the sections on which the philological evidence for St. Adv. Marc. iv. 19, 37, 43. Adv.
The common opinion, that he rejected the first two chapters, seems to have been a mistake. He must have retained therefore the essential parts of the history. Of all the ancient heretics, the most extraordinary was Marcion. He spared not a text which contradicted his opinion.
Quibus ille ait quia, Et aliis civitatibus oportet me evangelizare regnum dei. His discussion of the fifth chapter Tertullian begins by asking why, out of all possible occupations, Christ should have fixed upon that of fishing, to take from thence His apostles, Simon and the sons of Zebedee. By this allusion Jesus sanctioned those very prophecies which Marcion rejected.
A slave entered the room while he was speaking, and approached hesitatingly. "Master," he said, "John of Antioch, whom we were forbidden to admit to the house, has come again. He would take no denial. Even now he waits in the peristyle; and the old man Marcion is with him, seeking to turn him away."
Both with this ancient heretic, as with Valentinus, it is impossible to distinguish what is ascribed to him from what is ascribed to his followers, and thus evidence drawn from either of them is weaker even than usual. Marcion, the greatest heretic of the second century, ought to prove a useful witness to the Christians if the present Gospels had been accepted in his time as canonical.
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