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to have been born to many fathers has driven many to different interpretations. But here, speaking about God and Christ, they did not suppose many mothers, but the one who had truly borne him, and not many brothers, but the sons of Joseph from his other, true wife; and you cannot arm yourself against the truth. And let not the saying which the Lord spoke deceive you, "Who is my mother and my brothers?" For he did not say these things denying his mother, but overturning the unseasonableness of the one who said it, while so great a crowd stood around and his salvific teaching was being poured forth and he was occupied with healings and preaching; for it seemed to be a distraction for the one speaking to interrupt him by saying "Behold, your mother and your brothers." And if it were not that he received it with joy, not as being ignorant that they had come before he heard, but foreknowing that they stood outside, he would have overturned the untimely voice of the speaker with a rebuke, as he once said also to Peter, "Get away from me, Satan, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men." 20Scholium20 13. "As they were sailing, he fell asleep; and he, having awakened, rebuked the wind and the sea." 20Refutation20 13. Who fell asleep, tell me. Concerning the divinity you will not dare to say; and if you should say it, against your own head, O you driven by God, you will blaspheme. But it is clear to everyone that he who was truly incarnate fell asleep because of the body, being in need of sleep. For those who woke him up did not see an appearance, but a true incarnation. Indeed, by moving with their hands and calling out they bear witness that they roused him. "For having arisen," he says, the sleeping God, the flesh-bearer, who came down from heaven and clothed himself in flesh for our sakes, "was awakened" as a man, but "rebuked" as God the sea and made a calm. 2.130 20Scholium20 14. "And it happened as they were going, the crowds were thronging him. And a woman who touched him was healed of her blood. And the Lord said, Who touched me?" and again "Someone touched me. For I knew power had gone out from me." 20Refutation20 14. "As they were going," and he did not say "as he was going," so that he might not present him differently from the company of those traveling. But as for "the crowds were thronging him," the crowds could not throng a spirit. And the woman who touched and was healed did not touch air, but a human touch. For to show that the touching of his body by the woman did not happen only in appearance, he teaches by saying, "Who touched me? For I knew power had gone out from me." 20Scholium20 15. "Looking up to the heavens, he blessed them." 20Refutation20 15. If he looked up to the heavens and blessed them, he did not have the forms of his eyes and his other members in appearance. 20Scholium20 10. "Saying, the Son of Man must suffer many things and be killed and after three days be raised." 20Refutation20 10. If the only-begotten Son of God confesses himself to be the Son of Man and to suffer and be killed *, this is an axe against you, cutting out your every root, O Marcion born of thorns and waterless cloud, and a fruitless and autumn tree. For he says again, "and after three days be raised." And what was raised, but that very thing which had suffered and was buried in the tomb? But an appearance or a wind or a spirit or a phantom could not have admitted of a burial and a tomb and a resurrection. 20Scholium20 17. "And behold, two men were talking with him, Elijah and Moses in glory." 20Refutation20 17. Perhaps, I think, through these words the sickle in holy Zechariah is prefigured against you, O Marcion, cutting out all your

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