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As in most other points relating to this period, there is some confusion in the chronological data, but these range within a comparatively limited area. It is also agreed that Marcion himself did actually use a certain Gospel that is attributed to him.
Paul, admitted by him to be genuine, which seemed to conflict with his own system. He is also said to have made additions, but these were in any case exceedingly slight. The statement of the Church writers should hardly, perhaps, be put aside quite so summarily as is sometimes done. Luke's Gospel by Marcion as a notorious fact.
In the central hall the two men were standing; Marcion, with disdainful eyes and sneering lips, taunting the unbidden guest; John, silent, quiet, patient, while the wondering slaves looked on in dismay. He lifted his searching gaze to the haggard face of Hermas. "My son, I knew that I should see you again, even though you did not send for me.
We may cut down the preliminary disquisitions as to the life and doctrines of Marcion, which have, indeed, a certain bearing upon the point at issue, but will be found given with sufficient fulness in 'Supernatural Religion, or in any of the authorities.
"Come," said Hermas to his wife, "let us go to him; for I think I see the beginning of a way that may lead us out of this dreadful darkness." In the central hall the two men were standing; Marcion, with disdainful eyes and sneering lips, taunting the unbidden guest to depart; John silent, quiet, patient, while the wondering slaves looked on in dismay.
"The Gospel of Saint Matthew, the Epistle to the Hebrews, with those of Saint Peter and Saint James, as well as the Old Testament in general" he said, "were writings not for Christians but for Jews." This declaration shows the ground upon which Marcion proceeded in his mutilation of the Scriptures, viz., his dislike of the passages or the books. Marcion flourished about the year 130.* Dr. Dr.
In the year 140 A.D. Marcion possesses a Gospel which is already in an advanced stage of transcription which has not only undergone those changes which in some regions the text underwent before it was translated into Latin, but has undergone other changes besides.
Luke or not. Failing this, it may be well to give a brief example of the kind of data available, going back straight to the original authorities themselves. For this purpose we will take the first chapter that Marcion preserved entire, Luke v, and set forth in full such fragments of it as have come down to us.
They resisted Persian mysticism as the work of the Devil, and it was in that mysticism, if anywhere, that Buddhist influence existed in the Levant. Whoever has read Tertullian's withering condemnation of Marcion may judge how far the fathers of the Church favored the heresies of the East.
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." "Come," said Hermas to his wife, "let us go to him."
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