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saying, that the savior fashioned for himself the body. For having taken the dry from the dry and the hot from the hot and the wet from the wet and the cold from the cold, and having thus formed a body for himself, he truly appeared in the world and taught us the knowledge from above, to despise the creator and to deny his works, showing us in which scripture which things are naturally said by him and which are from the creator. “For thus,” he says, “he said in the gospel, ‘Become approved money-changers;’ for I use,” he says, “from every scripture, selecting what is useful.” 2.193 Then, he says, Christ gave himself to suffer in that very body and was crucified in truth and was buried in truth and rose in truth and showed that very flesh to his own disciples. And dissolving, he says, his own incarnation, he again distributed to each of the elements what was its own, giving back the hot to the hot, the cold to the cold, the dry to the dry, the wet to the wet; and thus having dissolved again from himself the fleshly body, he flew up to heaven, from whence he also had come. 3. And O what great play-acting of those who say such things, as it would be clear to anyone that they possess the workshop of mimes rather than the character of the promise of life or of understanding. For if he dissolved at all that body which he had taken, for what reason did he fashion it for himself from the beginning? But if he fashioned it for some use, and he completed the work of that use, he should have left it in the earth, especially since according to you the form of the hope of the resurrection of the flesh has no need to be perfected. But he raised it again, so that he might cast himself into greater toil, so that he might profit nothing, fashioning it and laying it away in a tomb and dissolving it and distributing to each of the elements what he had taken from it, like a grateful debtor. 2.194 And if he at all gave back to each its own, that is, the cold to the 2.194 cold and the hot to the hot, these things could have been unseen by his disciples, but surely not the dry body. For the dry is certainly a body, flesh and bones, and the wet is certainly fluids and flesh dissolving into wetness; which things he certainly indicated most clearly to the apostles when he laid them aside, just as at the first when his body was being buried Joseph of Arimathea was counted worthy to wrap it in a linen cloth and place it in a tomb. And at the same time the women were able to see where the remains were left, so that they might honor them with myrrh and spices, as at the first. But nowhere has this falsehood of yours been declared, O Apellians, by one of the holy apostles; for it does not exist. But they visibly saw two invisible men and him ascending into heaven and being taken up by a bright cloud, but his remains were left nowhere; for it was not fitting nor was it possible. And Apelles lies, and the Apellians from him. 4. And he taught doctrines similar to his master Marcion concerning both other flesh and other things likewise, asserting that there is no resurrection of the dead, and the other things that * on the earth, he seemed to teach likewise. But his reasoning will be overturned, being a kind of nonsense and misguided in every way. For neither will darkness prevail where the light shines forth, nor will falsehood stand * when truth is present. For if you use the scriptures at all, O Apelles and you Apellians from you, you will be found refuted from those same scriptures; 2.195 first, that God made man in the image of God, and the one who made said, “Let us make man in our image and after our likeness”; so that if someone from your misguided heresy should return to the truth, as one having escaped from darkness and having risen from the night, he would find the light of the knowledge of God dawning for him like the sun and beyond the sun. For it will appear to everyone

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λέγων, τὸν σωτῆρα ἑαυτῷ ὑποστήσασθαι τὸ σῶμα. ἀπὸ γὰρ τοῦ ξηροῦ τὸ ξηρὸν καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ θερμοῦ τὸ θερμὸν καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὑγροῦ τὸ ὑγρὸν καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ ψυχροῦ τὸ ψυχρὸν λαβὼν καὶ οὕτως πλάσας ἑαυτῷ σῶμα ἀληθινῶς πέφηνεν ἐν κόσμῳ καὶ ἐδίδαξεν ἡμᾶς τὴν ἄνω γνῶσιν, καταφρονεῖν τε τοῦ δημιουργοῦ καὶ ἀρνεῖσθαι αὐτοῦ τὰ ἔργα, ὑποδείξας ἡμῖν ἐν ποίᾳ γραφῇ ποῖά ἐστι τὰ φύσει ἐξ αὐτοῦ εἰρημένα καὶ ποῖά ἐστι τὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ δημιουργοῦ. «οὕτως γάρ, φησίν, ἔφη ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ, γίνεσθε δόκιμοι τραπεζῖται· χρῶμαι γάρ, φησίν, ἀπὸ πάσης γραφῆς ἀναλέγων τὰ χρήσιμα». 2.193 εἶτα, φησίν, ἔδωκεν ὁ Χριστὸς ἑαυτὸν παθεῖν ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ σώματι καὶ ἐσταυρώθη ἐν ἀληθείᾳ καὶ ἐτάφη ἐν ἀληθείᾳ καὶ ἀνέστη ἐν ἀληθείᾳ καὶ ἔδειξεν αὐτὴν τὴν σάρκα τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ μαθηταῖς. καὶ ἀναλύσας, φησίν, αὐτὴν τὴν ἐνανθρώπησιν ἑαυτοῦ ἀπεμέρισε πάλιν ἑκάστῳ τῶν στοιχείων τὸ ἴδιον ἀποδούς, τὸ θερμὸν τῷ θερμῷ, τὸ ψυχρὸν τῷ ψυχρῷ, τὸ ξηρὸν τῷ ξηρῷ, τὸ ὑγρὸν τῷ ὑγρῷ· καὶ οὕτως διαλύσας ἀπ' αὐτοῦ πάλιν τὸ ἔνσαρκον σῶμα ἀνέπτη εἰς τὸν οὐρανόν, ὅθεν καὶ ἧκε. 3. Καὶ ὦ πολλῆς δραματουργίας τῶν τὰ τοιαῦτα λεγόντων, ὡς παντί τῳ σαφὲς εἴη μίμων μᾶλλον ἐργαστήριον ἤπερ ἐπαγγελίας ζωῆς ἢ συνέσεως χαρακτῆρα κεκτημένων. εἰ γὰρ ὅλως ἔλυεν αὐτὸ τὸ σῶμα ὅπερ εἴληφε, τίνι τῷ λόγῳ ἀπ' ἀρχῆς αὐτὸ ἑαυτῷ κατεσκεύαζεν; εἰ δὲ κατεσκεύαζε διά τινα χρῆσιν, ἀπετέλεσε δὲ τὸ ἔργον τῆς χρήσεως, ἔδει καταλεῖψαι αὐτὸ ἐν τῇ γῇ, μάλιστα καθ' ὑμᾶς τοῦ τῆς κατὰ τὴν ἀνάστασιν τῆς σαρκὸς ἐλπίδος εἴδους μὴ χρείαν ἔχοντος τελειωθῆναι. ἀλλὰ ἀνέστησεν αὐτὸ πάλιν, ἵνα εἰς κάματον ἑαυτὸν μείζονα ἐμβάλοι, ἵνα μηδὲν ὠφελήσῃ, κατασκευάζων καὶ ἐν μνήματι ἀποτιθέμενος καὶ διαλύων καὶ μερίζων ἑκάστῳ τῶν στοιχείων ὅπερ παρ' αὐτοῦ εἴληφεν, ὡς εὐγνώμων χρεωφειλέτης. 2.194 καὶ εἰ ὅλως ἑκάστῳ τὸ ἴδιον ἀπεδίδου, τουτέστιν τὸ ψυχρὸν τῷ 2.194 ψυχρῷ καὶ τὸ θερμὸν τῷ θερμῷ, ἠδύνατο ταῦτα μὴ ὁρᾶσθαι τοῖς μαθηταῖς τοῖς αὐτοῦ, ἀλλ' οὐ μὴν τὸ σῶμα τὸ ξηρόν. πάντως γὰρ τὸ ξηρὸν σῶμά ἐστι, σὰρξ καὶ ὀστέα, καὶ τὸ ὑγρὸν πάντως ἰχῶρές εἰσι καὶ σὰρξ εἰς ὑγρότητα διαλυομένη· ἅτινα πάντως τοῖς ἀποστόλοις φανερώτατα ἀποτιθέμενος ἐσήμανεν, ὡς καὶ τὸ πρῶτον ὅτε ἐθάπτετο τὸ αὐτοῦ σῶμα κατηξιοῦτο Ἰωσὴφ ὁ ἀπὸ Ἀριμαθαίας ἐντυλίξαι αὐτὸ ἐν σινδόνι καὶ ἀποθέσθαι ἐν μνήματι. ἅμα δὲ καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες εἶχον ἰδεῖν ποῦ κατελείφθη τὰ λείψανα, ἵνα αὐτὰ τιμήσωσι διὰ μύρων καὶ ἀρωμάτων, ὡς τὸ πρῶτον. ἀλλ' οὐδαμοῦ τὸ ψεῦδος ὑμῶν τοῦτο δεδήλωται, ὦ Ἀπελληιανοί, ἀπὸ ἑνὸς τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων· οὐ γὰρ ἔστιν. ἀλλὰ τοὺς μὲν ἀοράτους ὁρατῶς εἶδον δύο ἄνδρας καὶ αὐτὸν εἰς οὐρανὸν ἀνερχόμενον καὶ ὑπὸ νεφέλης φωτεινῆς ὑπολαμβανόμενον, λείψανον δὲ αὐτοῦ οὐδαμοῦ καταλελειμμένον· οὐ γὰρ ἐχρῆν οὐδὲ ἐνεδέχετο. καὶ ψεύδεται Ἀπελλῆς καὶ οἱ ἀπ' αὐτοῦ Ἀπελληιανοί. 4. Τὰ ὅμοια δὲ τῷ ἑαυτοῦ ἐπιστάτῃ Μαρκίωνι περί τε τῆς ἄλλης σαρκὸς καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ὁμοίως ἐδογμάτισεν, φάσκων μὴ εἶναι ἀνάστασιν νεκρῶν, καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ὅσαπερ * ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ἔδοξεν ὁμοίως δογματίζειν. ἀνατραπήσεται δὲ ὁ αὐτοῦ λογισμὸς λῆρός τις ὢν καὶ κατὰ πάντα τρόπον πεπλανημένος. οὔτε γὰρ ἰσχύσει σκότος ἔνθα τὸ φῶς παραφαίνεται οὔτε τὸ ψεῦδος σταθήσεται * οὔσης τῆς ἀληθείας. εἰ γὰρ ὅλως κέχρησαι ταῖς γραφαῖς, ὦ Ἀπελλῆ καὶ οἱ ἀπὸ σοῦ Ἀπελληιανοί, ἐξ αὐτῶν τῶν γραφῶν εὑρεθήσεσθε ἐλεγχόμενοι· 2.195 πρῶτον μέν, ὅτι κατ' εἰκόνα θεοῦ ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ὁ δὲ ποιήσας ἔφη «ποιήσωμεν ἄνθρωπον κατ' εἰκόνα ἡμετέραν καὶ καθ' ὁμοίωσιν»· ὡς εἴ τις ἀπὸ τῆς σου πεπλανημένης αἱρέσεως ἐπιστρέψειε πρὸς τὴν ἀλήθειαν, ὡς ἀπὸ σκότους ἀποδράσας καὶ ἀπὸ νυκτὸς ἀναστὰς εὕροι ἂν τὸ φῶς αὐτῷ ἀνατεῖλαν τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ γνώσεως ἡλίου δίκην καὶ ὑπὲρ ἥλιον. φανήσεται γὰρ παντί τῳ