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to speak; but let them be in submission, as the law also says». 24. Concerning the resurrection of the dead: «Now I make known to you, brothers, the gospel which I preached to you». and that «if Christ has not been raised, it is in vain» and what follows. «so we preach and so you believed», «that Christ died and was buried and has been raised on the third day». «But when this mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the word that is written: Death is swallowed up in victory». From 2 Corinthians, but with him and with us 3. 25. «For as many as are the promises of God, in him is the Yes; wherefore also through him is the Amen to God». 26. «For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake, because God who said, 'Out of darkness light shall shine'». 27. «But having the same spirit of faith, we also believe, wherefore we also speak». but he excised «according to what is written». This is the adulterated compilation of Marcion, having the character and form of the gospel according to Luke, and of Paul the apostle, not in its entirety, not of all his epistles, but only of that to the Romans and that to the Ephesians and that to the Colossians and that to the Laodiceans and from that to the Galatians and of the first and second to the Corinthians and of the first and second to the Thessalonians and of that to Philemon and of that to the Philip2.124pians; and of the first and second to Timothy and of that to Titus and of that to the Hebrews * of those contained in his version, as not being most complete, but as in a forgery. And from every side the same compilation * having been corrupted and in some words having an artificial addition, not for benefit, but for inferior and harmful strange sayings against the sound faith from the same thunderstruck mind † of a brute. These things have been labored over and investigated by us from the aforementioned scripture in his version, both of the apostle and of the gospel according to Luke, so that all who attempt to speak against his error might know that the altered sayings have been inserted through corruption, and as many as are not found in their proper places have been plundered by his audacity; for these alone seemed to the beastly man to be contrary, to speak against his counterfeit thought. The third part of our love of what is good * is to gather as many things as are found both in his version and in ours that are consonant and have emphasis on the incarnate presence of the Savior and testimony of the harmony of the new with the old testament and the confession of the Son of God in the gospel confessing God the creator of heaven and earth, and that he himself spoke in the law and in the prophets, and that this one is his own father. And this is the brief commentated memorandum of our aforementioned hypothesis from copies of Marcion's compilation, written by us word for word as a section. But lest the things in it that are hard to understand be presented obscurely, being unknown to some, I will again explain in order the numbers of the headings, of the first, I say, and second and third chapter, for what reason each saying was refuted and here was changed. And I will begin to speak thus:

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αὐταῖς λαλεῖν· ἀλλ' ὑποτασσέσθωσαν, καθὼς καὶ ὁ νόμος λέγει». ˉιˉ ˉκˉδ. Περὶ ἀναστάσεως νεκρῶν· «γνωρίζω δὲ ὑμῖν, ἀδελφοί, τὸ εὐαγγέλιον, ὃ εὐηγγελισάμην ὑμῖν». καὶ ὅτι «εἰ Χριστὸς οὐκ ἐγήγερται, μάταιον» καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. «οὕτως κηρύσσομεν καὶ οὕτως ἐπιστεύσατε», «ὅτι Χριστὸς ἀπέθανε καὶ ἐτάφη καὶ ἐγήγερται τῇ τρίτῃ ἡμέρᾳ». «ὅταν δὲ τὸ θνητὸν τοῦτο ἐνδύσηται ἀθανασίαν, τότε γενήσεται ὁ λόγος ὁ γεγραμμένος· κατεπόθη ὁ θάνατος εἰς νῖκος». Τῆς πρὸς Κορινθίους ˉβ, παρ' αὐτῷ δὲ καὶ παρ' ἡμῖν ˉγ. ˉα ˉκˉε. «Ὅσαι γὰρ ἐπαγγελίαι θεοῦ, ἐν αὐτῷ τὸ ναί· διὸ καὶ δι' αὐτοῦ τὸ ἀμὴν τῷ θεῷ». ˉβ ˉκˉ. «Οὐ γὰρ ἑαυτοὺς κηρύσσομεν, ἀλλὰ Χριστὸν Ἰησοῦν κύριον, ἑαυτοὺς δὲ δούλους ὑμῶν διὰ Ἰησοῦ, ὅτι ὁ θεὸς ὁ εἰπὼν ἐκ σκότους φῶς λάμψει». ˉγ ˉκˉζ. «Ἔχοντες δὲ τὸ αὐτὸ πνεῦμα τῆς πίστεως καὶ ἡμεῖς πιστεύομεν, διὸ καὶ λαλοῦμεν». ἐξέκοψεν δὲ τό «κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον». Αὕτη ἡ νενοθευμένη τοῦ Μαρκίωνος σύνταξις, ἔχουσα μὲν χαρακτῆρα καὶ τύπον τοῦ κατὰ Λουκᾶν εὐαγγελίου, καὶ Παύλου τοῦ ἀποστόλου οὐχ ὅλον, οὐ πασῶν τῶν αὐτοῦ ἐπιστολῶν, ἀλλὰ μόνον τῆς πρὸς Ῥωμαίους καὶ τῆς πρὸς Ἐφεσίους καὶ τῆς πρὸς Κολασσαεῖς καὶ τῆς πρὸς Λαοδικεῖς καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς πρὸς Γαλάτας καὶ τῆς πρὸς Κορινθίους πρώτης καὶ δευτέρας καὶ τῆς πρὸς Θεσσαλονικεῖς πρώτης καὶ δευτέρας καὶ τῆς πρὸς Φιλήμονα καὶ τῆς πρὸς Φιλιπ2.124 πησίους· καὶ τῆς πρὸς Τιμόθεον πρώτης καὶ δευτέρας καὶ τῆς πρὸς Τίτον καὶ τῆς πρὸς Ἑβραίους * τῶν ἐμφερομένων παρ' αὐτῷ, ὡς οὐ πληρεστάτων οὐσῶν, ἀλλὰ ὡς ἐν παραχαράξει. πανταχόθεν δὲ τὴν αὐτὴν σύνταξιν * ἐρρᾳδιουργημένην καὶ ἔν τισι λέξεσιν ἐπιποιήτως προσθήκην ἔχουσαν, οὐκ εἰς ὠφέλειαν, ἀλλὰ εἰς ἥσσονας καὶ ἐπιβλαβεῖς ξενολεξίας κατὰ τῆς ὑγιοῦς πίστεως ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐμβεβροντημένου νοῦ † βοσκήματος. Ταῦτα δὲ ἡμῖν πεπόνηται καὶ πεπολυπραγμόνηται ἐκ τῆς παρ' αὐτῷ προλελεγμένης γραφῆς, ἀποστόλου τε καὶ τοῦ κατὰ Λουκᾶν εὐαγγελίου, ὅπως εἰδέναι ἔχοιεν πάντες οἱ πειρώμενοι ἀντιλέγειν τῇ αὐτοῦ πλάνῃ, ὅτι τὰ μὲν παρηλλαγμένα ῥήματα κατὰ ῥᾳδιουργίαν ἐντέτακται, ὅσα δὲ οὐκ ἐμφέρεται ἐν τοῖς οἰκείοις τόποις συληθέντα ὑπάρχει ὑπὸ τῆς αὐτοῦ τόλμης· ταῦτα γὰρ ἐδόκει ὁ κτηνώδης μόνα ἐναντία εἶναι ἀντιλέγειν τῇ αὐτοῦ ἐπιπλάστῳ διανοίᾳ. Ἔστιν δὲ τρίτον ἡμῶν τῆς φιλοκαλίας * τὸ συναγαγεῖν ὅσα παρ' αὐτῷ τε καὶ παρ' ἡμῖν ηὕρηται συνᾴδοντα καὶ ἔχοντα ἔμφασιν ἐνσάρκου παρουσίας τῆς τοῦ σωτῆρος καὶ μαρτυρίας συμφωνίας τῆς καινῆς πρὸς παλαιὰν διαθήκην καὶ ὁμολογίας τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ ὁμολογοῦντος τὸν θεὸν ποιητὴν οὐρανοῦ τε καὶ γῆς, αὐτόν τε λαλήσαντα ἐν νόμῳ καὶ ἐν προφήταις, ἴδιον δὲ τοῦτον εἶναι πατέρα αὐτοῦ. καὶ αὕτη μὲν τῆς προειρημένης ἡμῶν ὑποθέσεως ἡ σχολιοποιηθεῖσα σύντομος ὑπομνηματικὴ ἐξ ἀντιγράφων τοῦ Μαρκίωνος σύνταξις πρὸς ἔπος ὡς ἐδάφιον ἡμῖν γεγραμμένη. ἵνα δὲ μὴ τὰ ἐν αὐτῇ δυσνόητα παρά τισι σκοτεινῶς ἀγνοούμενα ἐμφέρηται, αὖθις πάλιν τοὺς ἀριθμοὺς τῶν ἐπιγραφῶν, πρώτου φημὶ καὶ δευτέρου καὶ τρίτου κεφαλαίου, καθ' εἱρμὸν ἐπιλύσω, δι' ἣν αἰτίαν ἑκάστη λέξις ἀνελέχθη καὶ ἐνταῦθα μετεβλήθη. ἄρξομαι δὲ τοῦ λέγειν οὕτως·

2.125 Σχόλιον ˉα ἀπὸ τοῦ εὐαγγελίου τοῦ παρ' αὐτῷ τῷ Μαρκίωνι. ˉα. «Ἀπελθὼν δεῖξον σεαυτὸν τῷ ἱερεῖ καὶ προσένεγκε περὶ τοῦ καθαρισμοῦ σου, καθὼς προσέταξε Μωυσῆς»· «ἵνα ᾖ μαρτύριον τοῦτο ὑμῖν» ἀνθ' οὗ εἶπεν ὁ σωτήρ «εἰς μαρτύριον αὐτοῖς». 20Ἔλεγχος20 ˉα. Πῶς ἠδύνατο ὁ κύριος ὁ κατὰ τοῦ νόμου καὶ κατὰ τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ νόμου ἔχων τὴν αὐτοῦ διδασκαλίαν, ὡς σὺ φῄς, λέγειν τοῖς ὑπ' αὐτοῦ θεραπευομένοις, φημὶ δὲ τῷ λεπρῷ· «ἀπελθὼν δεῖξον σεαυτὸν τῷ ἱερεῖ»; «ἱερεῖ» γὰρ