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the "to the wife". 3 and 38 refutation. It has been proven many times that the things in the law are not foreign to the teachings of the apostle, even if you, O Marcion, should excise the "to the wife". For from the "they shall be one flesh" all your villainy will be clear. From the one to the Colossians, which stands as the 8th in Marcion's, but as the 7th in the apostle's; 1 and 39 commentary. "Therefore let no one judge you in food or in drink, or in respect of a festival or a new moon or of sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come." 1 and 39 refutation. From nowhere does a shadow fall, O Marcion, except from a body, and it cannot be a body if a shadow does not appear from it. Whence those deceived by you ought to be persuaded, through the remnants of the truth of the divine scriptures still preserved by you, that the ordinances of that time concerning food and drink and the observance of festivals and new moons and sabbaths, temporarily commanded, were not foreign to the good things that were to be revealed; of which good things the aforementioned were shadows, through which shadows we have grasped the body of the present good things, which were foreshadowed in the law but perfected in Christ. To Philemon, 9th; for so it is placed by Marcion, but by the apostle it is placed last; and in some copies it is placed thirteenth before Hebrews as fourteenth, but other copies have Hebrews as tenth before the two to Timothy and Titus and Philemon. But all sound and true copies have Romans first, not as you, Marcion, have placed Galatians 2.182 first. Nevertheless, from this one to Philemon we have cited nothing, because it is found in his version in a completely perverse state. To the Philippians, 10th; for so it is placed by Marcion, last and tenth, but by the apostle sixth. Likewise, neither from this one have we selected anything, because it is found in his version in a perverse state. This is the completion of Marcion's composition of the subject matter and words of the remnants preserved from the Gospel according to Luke and from the apostle; from which we have selected and set forth the refutations against him from what is preserved by him. And he added in his own so-called Apostolicon also the one called to the Laodiceans 1 and 40 commentary. "One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all." 1 and 40 refutation. In harmony with the one to the Ephesians, O Marcion, you have also collected these testimonies against yourself from the so-called one to the Laodiceans, so that at the end of the composition we might learn by reading what is in your version, and knowing the things against you, we might condemn the differences among the three unoriginated principles, which are at variance with one another, that have been strangely devised by you. For the subject matter and secure preaching of the holy apostle is not so, but otherwise than your fabrication. For he clearly said "one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God, the same Father of all, the same over all, the same through all and in all," both through the law and prophets and in all the apostles and in those who followed. This then is our composition, previously considered in the foregoing, of passages selected from the scripture still preserved by Marcion himself, 2.183 whose selection one might examine and be astonished at the dispensations of the greatly-giving God. For with each matter being confirmed and established by three testimonies, how has God here simply granted us, as I said, to join together by dispensation seventy-eight testimonies from the Gospel, and forty from the apostle? and these preserved by him until this very day and not disputed, so that there are one hundred and eighteen in all, and all contradicting the opinion of Marcion himself, as from the face of the name of the Lord through the eighteen and of his blessing at the right hand through the

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