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being dipped in water after the departure from hence and a tongue being cooled with water, as the rich man said to Abraham because of Lazarus, and a gnashing of teeth and weeping occurring, is a sign of the resurrection of bodies, even if the beastly one should mutilate the things truly spoken by the Lord concerning the resurrection of the dead. 20Scholium20 ˉνˉζ. He did not have these things: “but that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, saying God of Abraham and God of Isaac and God of Jacob—God of the living.” 20Refutation20 ˉνˉζ. Because the Savior repeated the parable, it has been inserted twice by us, so that we, not being likened to the charlatan Marcion, might not omit anything of what has been written. And already in the refutation above the objection against his unscrupulousness has been made. 2.147 20Scholium20 ˉνˉη. Again he cut out, “a hair from your head shall not perish.” 20Refutation20 ˉνˉη. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Scholium20 ˉνˉθ. Again he cut out these things: “then let those in Judea flee to the mountains” and what follows, on account of what is added in the saying, “until all things that are written are fulfilled.” 20Refutation20 ˉνˉθ. He seems to have forgotten that all are perhaps foolish in his sight, and he does not know that even if a small saying is left out by him, it creates a refutation, even of each of the many sayings mutilated by him. Nothing, therefore, will prevent one who wishes from comparing to these mutilated testimonies the things confessed by him. For they will be shown to be in agreement with these things cut out by that man * in which Abraham said after death, that “they have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.” For what the prophets and Moses said was from God the Father and from the Lord himself, the Son of God, and from the Holy Spirit, which things, having been written, had to be fulfilled. Scholium20 ˉξ. “He conferred with the captains how he might deliver him to them.” 20Refutation20 ˉξ. O madness of Marcion! “He conferred”—who but Judas? To do what, but to deliver up the Savior? But when the Savior is delivered up, the one delivered is no longer a phantom, but reality. For if he were only spirit, he would not be delivered to carnal men; but being a man he became subject to touch, and having put on flesh he willingly delivered himself into the hands of human nature. But they utter things contrary to themselves out of foolishness. For once when I was debating with one of his disciples, a certain Marcionite, and saying as it is in the Gospel that the Spirit took him into the desert to be tempted by the devil, I heard from him: How was Satan able to tempt one who is God and who is greater than him and his Lord, as you say, Jesus his master? But I, by the help of God, having received understanding on the spot, answered him, saying: Do you not believe that Christ was crucified? And he said: Yes, and did not deny it. Who then crucified him? And he said: Men. Then I said to him: Who is more powerful, men or the devil? And he said: The devil. And when he said this, I answered: If the devil is stronger than men, but men who are weaker crucified Christ, it is no wonder if he was also tempted by the devil. For Christ, willing all things and not by necessity, gave himself for us, suffering in truth, not according to weakness but according to choice, as an example for us also against the devil and for our salvation in the passion of the cross *, for the condemnation of sin and the abolition of death. 20Scholium20 ˉξˉα. “And he said to Peter and to the rest: Go and

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