⁸⁰⁵ Eph. ii. 15-16.

⁸⁰⁶ Eph. ii. 16.

⁸⁰⁷ Eph. ii. 17-20.

⁸⁰⁸ "Because, if our building as Christians rested in part upon that foundation, our God, and the God of the Jews must be the same, which Marcion denied" (Lardner).

⁸⁰⁹ Eph. ii. 20.

⁸¹⁰ Ps. cxviii. 22.

⁸¹¹ Eph. iii. 8, 9.

⁸¹² The passage of St. Paul, as Tertullian expresses it, "QUae dispensatio sacramenti occulti ab aevis in Deo, qui omnia condidit." According to Marcion's alteration, the latter part runs, "Occulti ab aevis Deo, qui omnia condidit." The original is, Ti/j h9 oi0konomi/a tou= musthri/ou tou= a0pokekrumme/nou a0po\ tw=n ai0w/nwn e0n tw=| Qew=| (compare Col. iii. 3) tw=| ta\ pa/nta kti/santi. Marcion's removal of the e0n has no warrant of ms. authority; it upsets St. Paul's doctrine, as attested in other passages, and destroys the grammatical structure.

⁸¹³ Emicat.

⁸¹⁴ Eph. iii. 10.

⁸¹⁵ Debebat.

⁸¹⁶ Isa. xl. 13.

⁸¹⁷ Marcion's god, of course.

⁸¹⁸ Eph. iv. 8 and Ps. lxviii. 19.

⁸¹⁹ Ps. xlv. 3.

⁸²⁰ Isa. viii. 4.

⁸²¹ Extundis.

⁸²² See above, book iii. chap. xiii. and xiv. p. 332.

⁸²³ Eph. iv. 25.

⁸²⁴ Ps. iv. 4.

⁸²⁵ Eph. iv. 26.

⁸²⁶ Eph. iv. 26.

⁸²⁷ Eph. v. 11.

⁸²⁸ Ps. xviii. 26.

⁸²⁹ Deut. xxi. 21, quoted also in 1 Cor. v. 13.

⁸³⁰ Isa. lii. 11, quoted in 2 Cor. vi. 17.

⁸³¹ Eph. v. 18.

⁸³² Amos. ii. 12.

⁸³³ Lev. x. 9.

⁸³⁴ Eph. v. 19.

⁸³⁵ Isa. v. 11, 12.

⁸³⁶ Eph. v. 22, 24.

⁸³⁷ Eph. v. 23.

⁸³⁸ Eph. v. 23.

⁸³⁹ Eph. v. 25, 28.

⁸⁴⁰ Eph. v. 29.

⁸⁴¹ Proinde.

⁸⁴² Ego.

⁸⁴³ Masculi.

⁸⁴⁴ Eph. v. 31, 32.

⁸⁴⁵ Inter ista.

⁸⁴⁶ Magna sacramenta.

⁸⁴⁷ Eph. v. 32.

⁸⁴⁸ Eph. vi. i.

⁸⁴⁹ Eph. vi. 2. "He did this (says Lardner) in order that the Mosaic law might not be thought to be thus established."

⁸⁵⁰ Ex. xx. 12.

⁸⁵¹ Eph. vi. 4.

⁸⁵² Ex. x. 2.

⁸⁵³ Eph. vi. 12.

⁸⁵⁴ An ironical allusion to Marcion's interpretation, which he has considered in a former chpater, of the title God of this world.

⁸⁵⁵ Eph. vi. 11.

⁸⁵⁶ Eph. vi. 12.

⁸⁵⁷ Apud Creatorem.

⁸⁵⁸ Ex qua delatura.

⁸⁵⁹ Illius arbusculae.

⁸⁶⁰ Spiritalia nequitiae: "wicked spirits."

⁸⁶¹ Eph vi. 12.

⁸⁶² Gen. vi. 1-4. See also Tertullian, De Idol. 9; De Habit. Mul. 2; De Cultu Femin. 10; De Vel. Virg. 7; Apolog. 22. See also Augustin, De Civit. Dei. xv. 23.

⁸⁶³ Ut taxaret. Of course he alludes to Marcion's absurd exposition of the 12th verse, in applying St. Paul's description of wicked spirits to the Creator.

⁸⁶⁴ Eph. vi. 19, 20.

⁸⁶⁵ Compendium figere.

⁸⁶⁶ Col. i. 5, 6.

⁸⁶⁷ Antoniniani Marcionis: see above in book i. chap. xix.

⁸⁶⁸ Ps. xix. 4.

⁸⁶⁹ Col. i. 15.

⁸⁷⁰ Ex. xxxiii. 20.

⁸⁷¹ Col. i. 15. Our author's "primogenitus conditionis" is St. Paul's prwto/tokoj pa/shj kti/sewj, for the meaning of which see Bp. Ellicott, in loc.

⁸⁷² John i. 3.

⁸⁷³ Ante omnes.

⁸⁷⁴ Ante amina.

⁸⁷⁵ Creatoris is our author's word.

⁸⁷⁶ Col. i. 19.

⁸⁷⁷ Aut si.

⁸⁷⁸ Evangelizatores.

⁸⁷⁹ Ceterum quale.

⁸⁸⁰ Col. i. 20.

⁸⁸¹ "Una ipsa" is Oehler's reading instead of universa.

⁸⁸² Cujus novissime fuerant.

⁸⁸³ Col. i. 21.

⁸⁸⁴ Eph. i. 23.

⁸⁸⁵ Col. i. 24.

⁸⁸⁶ Col. i. 22.

⁸⁸⁷ As if only in a metaphorical body, in which sense the Church is "His body."

⁸⁸⁸ Col. ii. 8.

⁸⁸⁹ "Dominum inferens hebetem;" with which may be compared Cicero (De Divin. ii. 50, 103): "Videsne Epicurum quem hebetem et rudem dicere solent Stoici...qui negat, quidquam deos nec alieni curare, nec sui." The otiose and inert character of the god of Epicurus is referred to by Tertullian not unfrequently; see above, in book iv. chap. xv.; Apolog. 47, and Ad Nationes, ii. 2; whilst in De Anima, 3, he characterizes the philosophy of Epicurus by a similar term: "Prout aut Platonis honor, aut Zenonis vigor, aut Aristotelis tenor, aut Epicuri stupor, aut Heracliti maeror, aut Empedoclis furor persuaserunt."

⁸⁹⁰ The Stoical dogma of the eternity of matter and its equality with God was also held by Hermogenes; see his Adv. Hermogenem, c. 4, "Materiam parem Deo infert."

⁸⁹¹ Pliny, Nat. Hist. vii. 55, refers to the peculiar opinion of Democritus on this subject (Fr. Junius).

⁸⁹² 1 Cor. i. 27.

⁸⁹³ Isa. xxix. 14, quoted 1 Cor. i. 19; comp. Jer. viii. 9 and Job v. 12, 13.

⁸⁹⁴ Col. ii. 13.

⁸⁹⁵ Col. ii. 16, 17.

⁸⁹⁶ Col. ii. 18, 19, 21.

⁸⁹⁷ Col. ii. 22.

⁸⁹⁸ Recensentur: Eph. i. 10.

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