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as if you preached yourself and not Christ. Then he says, "For God, who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness.'" And which God but the one who in the prophet showed light from darkness, that is, from the unbelief and ignorance of men, light and knowledge in Christ has shone in our hearts, we who were once idolatrous gentiles, but now have known God who then in the prophet promised that his light would shine in the world, as the Old and New Testament are not foreign to each other; as it has become our custom to persuade you, O Marcion, from the written remnants of the gospel which you have, and not to be deceived by you. 2.175 3 and 27 Commentary. "But having the same spirit of faith, we also believe, and so we speak." But he cut out "according to what is written." 3 and 27 Refutation. No place will be given to you in what you would dare. For even if you cut out "according to what is written," the sequence of the preceding phrase is apparent. For from "I believed, and so I spoke," the apostle, immediately adding the same things, said, "having the same spirit of faith, we also believe, and so we speak." And it is clear to everyone that in the one hundred and fifteenth psalm, the one having the inscription Alleluia, being of the book of David and prophesied by him, the saying "I believed" is written. from which the apostle also took the saying and likewise said, "and so we also believe and speak," being one of the number of the apostles; hence he does not say, "and so I believed and spoke," but "we believe, and so we speak," so that he might join himself with the other apostles. And he says, "but having the same spirit," to show that the spirit that spoke in David is the same spirit that is also in the apostles, from which he, prophesying then, believed, in which spirit they also, being in it, believe and speak. And great injustice and greed, so to speak, * of thoughts. For since the apostle says there is one and the same spirit, how does the foolishness of Marcion, while confessing that the holy apostle said this saying, dare to say that the spirit then was one thing and the spirit in the apostles another? From the fourth epistle to the Romans; for so it is placed in Marcion, so that nothing with him might be correct. 1 and 28 Commentary. "For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified." 1 and 28 Refutation. If all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, the law, when it is kept, is a cause of salvation, not allowing those who 2.176 keep it to perish. And if those who sinned under the law will be judged by the law, then the law is a judge of transgressions, not of destruction but of righteous judgment, judging piously those who have transgressed. "For not the hearers of the law are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified." But if the law, being done, justifies the one who does it, the law is not unjust nor worthless, through which those who fulfill the law are made righteous. And from the law is also the faith in Christ that was prophesied, without which no one will be justified, and in which having believed apart from the testimony prophesied by the law no one again can be justified, as Christ is the fulfillment of the law according to what was said by the apostle, that "Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness," showing that without the law and Christ there is no righteousness. For neither will the Jews be justified without Christ, not having received Christ, nor will you, Marcion, be justified, having denied the law. 2 and 29 Commentary. "For circumcision is indeed of value if you practice the law; but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision." 2 and 29 Refutation. If the holy apostle declares that circumcision

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