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so that they might not invent for themselves things they do not hear from him. But it has a greater meaning, for which the Savior spoke by nature: lest someone, because he too was born of a woman, should think that John, who was ranked by him as greater among those born of women, was also greater than the Savior himself, he makes it secure and says, "and blessed is he who is not scandalized in me." Hence he says, "but he who is least in the kingdom is greater than he." For the Savior was younger than him by a period of six months in time according to his birth from the flesh, but greater in the kingdom, clearly as his God. For the only-begotten did not come to speak anything in secret or to falsify anything of his own preaching. For he says, "I have not spoken in secret, but with boldness." For he is truth, as he says, "I am the way and the truth." Therefore, neither does the way have error, nor does the truth, hiding itself, speak falsehood. 20Σχόλιον20 ˉθ. "This is he of whom it is written: 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face.'" 20Ἔλεγχος20 ˉθ. If the only-begotten Son of God recognizes John and foreknows him, and in foreknowing him points out to those wishing to know the truth that this is he of whom it is written, "I send my messenger before your face," then he who wrote and said, "I send my messenger before your face," the eternal God, who spoke in the prophets and in the law, was not alien to his own Son, Jesus Christ. For he sends his messenger 2.128 before his face, before the face of a Son honored by the Father. For he did not send his messenger to serve another, to whom he was also opposed according to your argument, O Marcion. 20Σχόλιον20 ˉι. "And entering into the house of the Pharisee, he reclined. And the woman, a sinner, standing behind at his feet, wet his feet with her tears, and anointed and kissed them." 20Ἔλεγχος20 ˉι. The "entering" shows a body; for it shows a house and the measure of a body. And to recline belongs to no one else but one who has a substantial body that is lying down; and the woman wetting his feet with tears—not the feet of a phantom, nor of an appearance; for she anointed and wet and kissed them, perceiving the touch of the body. 20Σχόλιον20 ˉιˉα. And again: "this woman has wet my feet with her tears and anointed and kissed them." 20Ἔλεγχος20 ˉιˉα. Lest you think, O Marcion, that the sinful woman was only thought by men to have wet and anointed and kissed the Savior's feet, the Savior himself confirms it, teaching that these things did not happen in appearance but in truth, for the refutation of the Pharisee and of you, Marcion, and those like you, insisting and saying, "this woman anointed and kissed my feet." And what kind of feet but those existing of flesh and bones and the other things? 20Σχόλιον20 ˉιˉβ. It did not have "his mother and his brothers," but only "your mother and your brothers." 20Ἔλεγχος20 ˉιˉβ. Even if you should falsify the saying of the gospel higher up, O Marcion, in order to make the evangelist not agree with the phrase spoken by some, that "your mother and your brothers," you cannot overcome the truth. For why did he not name many mothers? Why did he not speak of many homelands? How many people say how many things about Homer? Some asserting he was Egyptian, others Chian, others Colophonian, others Phrygian, others Smyrnaean, son of Meles and Critheis; 2.129 but those around Aristarchus declared him to be Athenian; others a Lydian, son of Maeon, others a Cypriot from Propodias, a perioecis of the Salaminian perimeter, although he was a man. But because in

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