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preserving the words of the apostle. For some of them were craftily altered by him, as though he did not have the copy of the Gospel according to Luke, nor the emphasis of the apostolic character; but others, by nature as both the Gospel and the apostle have them, not altered by him, but able to refute him, through which it is shown that the Old Testament agrees with the New and the New Testament with the Old Testament; and again other words of the same books, indicating that Christ has come in the flesh and has been made perfectly human in us; but also others again confessing the resurrection of the dead and that God is one, the Lord of all, 2.107 the Almighty, himself the maker of heaven and earth and of all things that have come to be on the earth, and neither falsifying the calling of the Gospel nor yet denying the maker and creator of all things, but declaring him who is clearly confessed by the character of the apostolic and of the evangelic preaching. And the things treated by us are set forth below, which are as follows: Introduction to the subject and refutation concerning the books of Marcion. 11. Whoever wishes to scrutinize the spurious inventions of the deceitful Marcion and to discern the counterfeit contrivances of his school, let him not hesitate to read this collected work. For from the Gospel he possesses, we have diligently set forth the things for the refutation of his cunning craftiness, so that those who wish to read the work might have this as an exercise of acuteness, for the refutation of the strange words invented by him. For the character of the [Gospel] according to Luke † signifies the Gospel; but as it has been mutilated, having neither beginning nor middle nor end, it has the appearance of a garment eaten by many moths. For right at the beginning, all the things treated by Luke from the beginning, that is, as he says, "Forasmuch as many have taken in hand" and the following, and the things concerning Elizabeth and the angel announcing the good news to Mary the virgin, and John and Zacharias, and the birth in Bethlehem, the genealogy, and the account of the baptism—having cut away all these things, he jumped off and set this as the beginning of the Gospel: "in the fifteenth year 2.108 of Tiberius Caesar" and the following. From this point, therefore, he begins and does not continue in sequence, but some things he cuts away, as I said before, and other things he adds, upside down, not proceeding correctly but craftily going through everything, and it is: ˉα. "Go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing, as Moses commanded"; "that this may be a testimony to you" instead of what the Savior said, "for a testimony to them." ˉβ. "But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins on the earth." ˉγ. "The Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath." ˉδ. "Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor." And instead of "he went down with them" he has "he went down among them." ˉε. "And the whole crowd sought to touch him. And he, lifting up his eyes," and the following. ˉ. "In the same way did your fathers to the prophets." ˉζ. "I say to you, I have not found such great faith even in Israel." ˉη. Altered is "blessed is he who is not offended in me"; for he had it as addressed to John. ˉθ. "This is he of whom it is written: 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face'." 2.109 ˉι. "And having entered into the house of the Pharisee, he reclined. And the woman, a sinner, standing behind at his feet, wet his feet with tears and anointed and kissed them." ˉιˉα. And again, "she has wet my feet with tears and has anointed and kissed them." ˉιˉβ. He did not have "his mother and his brothers," but only "your mother and your brothers." ˉιˉγ. "As they sailed, he fell asleep; but he, having been awakened

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