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It would be in vain for Marcion to suggest that this was done in contempt of the law. Neither, as Marcion maintained, did a comparison with the miracle of Elisha tend to the disparagement of that prophet. True, Christ healed with a word. So also with a word had the Creator made the world.
The narrative of the Baptism Marcion could not admit, because it supplied the foundation for that very Ebionism to which his own system was diametrically opposed. This, indeed, was only to be expected.
Let us return to Zoroaster, who led us to Oromasdes and Arimanius, the sources of good and evil, and let us assume that he looked upon them as two eternal principles opposed to each other, although there is reason to doubt this assumption. It is thought that Marcion, disciple of Cerdon, was of this opinion before Manes.
He is less an evangelist than a biographer of Jesus, a "harmonizer," a corrector after the manner of Marcion and Tatian.
When Luke has the other two Synoptics against him, as in the insertions Matt. xiv. 3-12, Mark vi. 17-29, and again Matt. xx. 20-28, Mark x. 35-45, and Matt. xxi. 20-22, Mark xi. 20-26, Marcion has them against him too. It has been noticed as characteristic of St.
After the light of the Christian religion had made some way toward supplanting the ancient polytheism, the doctrine of two principles was broached; first by Marcion, who lived in the time of Adrian and Antonius Pius, early in the second century; and next by Manes, a hundred years later.
De Spectaculis, II. Against Marcion, I, 17. Ibid., V, 16. This is to justify his doctrine of the punishment of the heathen. Scapula, II. Against Celsus, I, 23. Plea for the Christians, XV, XVI. I, 5 and 6. Exhortation to the Heathen, X. Divine Institutes, III, 20. Chap. Treatise on the Anger of God, X. E.g., Stirling: Philosophy and Theology, p. 179. Trypho, III, IV. Stromata, V, 14.
The world might have nothing better to give than it had already given; but surely it had many things that were new, and Marcion should help him to find them. Under his learned counsel the House of the Golden Pillars took on a new magnificence. Artists were brought from Corinth and Rome and Alexandria to adorn it with splendour. Its fame glittered around the world.
In both the one and the other there was no mention of our Lord's miraculous birth; and later writers accused Marcion of having mutilated St. Luke. But apparently their only reason for thinking so was that the two Gospels were like each other; and for all that can be historically proved, the Gospel of the Marcionites may have been the older of the two.
There was a chill in the inscrutable smile of Marcion, as he called himself, that seemed to mock at reverence.
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