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saying, he does not set aside the priesthood of the law; «and offer for your cleansing» and even if you cut off «the gift», it will be clear from the "offer" that he is speaking about a gift; «for your cleansing, as Moses commanded»; for if he advises that the command of Moses be followed, he does not set aside nor does he blaspheme the god of the law, but confesses that both he himself and his Father God gave the law to Moses. But you have twisted the saying, O Marcion, instead of saying «for a testimony to them», saying «a testimony» «to you». And in this you have clearly lied, to your own detriment. For if he had said a testimony to you, he would have made him a witness that «I came not to destroy the law or the prophets, but to fulfill them». 20Scholion20 ˉβ. «But that you may know that the son of man has authority to forgive sins on earth». 20Refutation20 ˉβ. If, then, he calls himself son of man, the only-begotten does not deny the incarnation, and it is sung in vain by you that he appeared in semblance. And if he has authority on the earth, the earth is not foreign to his works and to his Father. 20Scholion20 ˉγ. «The son of man is lord even of the sabbath». 20Refutation20 ˉγ. Two things at once in the same, both son of man and lord of the sabbath the savior confesses himself to be while teaching, so that the sabbath may not be considered * foreign to his creation, even if in the last he is called son of man from his incarnate presence. 2.126 20Scholion20 ˉδ. «Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor». And instead of «he went down with them» he has «he went down among them». 20Refutation20 ˉδ. Judas Iscariot, «who became a traitor». Of whom, say. Certainly of the one who was seized, yes and crucified and suffered many things. How then is he who was seized crucified, the one who does not fall under touch according to your word, O Marcion? For you say it was a semblance. But your suspicion will be refuted from what is written, that Judas was a traitor. For he betrayed and delivered his own master into the hands of men. And it has availed you nothing to say «he went down among them» instead of «with them». For you cannot define as an illusion the one who with you is also shown later, unwillingly, to fall under touch. 20Scholion20 ˉε. «And the whole crowd sought to touch him. And he, lifting up his eyes» and what follows. 20Refutation20 ˉε. How again was the crowd able to touch one who had no touch? And what eyes did he lift up to heaven, he who was not fashioned of flesh? But that he might show that the mediator between God and men is the man Christ Jesus, having both: from men the flesh, and from God the Father the invisible substance. 20Scholion20 ˉ. «In the same way your fathers did to the prophets». 20Refutation20 ςˉ. If he remembers prophets, he does not deny prophets; if he avenges the murder of the prophets and reproaches those who murdered and persecuted them, he is not foreign to the prophets, but is their God, who makes their company. 20Scholion20 ˉζ. «But I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such faith». 20Refutation20 ˉζ. If not even in Israel did he find such faith as in the centurion who came from the gentiles, then he does not blame the faith of Israel. 2.127 For if it belonged to a foreign god and not to him and his Father, he would not have made praise of it. 20Scholion20 ˉη. The phrase «blessed is he who is not scandalized in me» is altered; for he had it as directed toward John. 20Refutation20 ˉη. And whether he has it toward John, or toward the savior himself, he blesses those who are not scandalized, either in him or in John,

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