Forerunners and rivals of Christianity : $b being studies in religious history from 330 B.C. to 330 A.D., Vol. 2 (of 2)Legge, Francis
Religion
Forerunners and rivals of Christianity : $b being studies in religious history from 330 B.C. to 330 A.D., Vol. 2 (of 2)
Legge, Francis
Christianity and other religions; Religions
With the remainder of the New Testament, Marcion took similar liberties.
He rejected entirely the _Acts of the Apostles_, The Apocalypse of St
John, the _Epistle to the Hebrews_, and the Epistles generally called
“Pastoral,” as well as all those passing under the names of St John, St
James, St Peter and St Jude. For the Apostle Paul, however, Marcion had
a profound admiration, pronouncing him to be the only true follower of
Jesus, and he accepted with some alterations the ten epistles which he
thought could with confidence be attributed to him. These were the
Epistles to the Galatians, the two to the Corinthians, the one to the
Romans, both those to the Thessalonians, that to the Ephesians or, as he
preferred to call it, to the Laodiceans, and those to the Colossians, to
Philemon, and to the Philippians. From these ten epistles, he removed
everything which described the fulfilment of the prophecies of the
Jewish prophets, all allusions to the Parusia or Second Coming, and some
expressions which seemed to him to militate against the asceticism that
he himself favoured[712]. All these alterations seem to have been set
down by Marcion in a book to which he gave the name of the _Antitheses_,
and which contained his statement of the incongruities apparent between
the Old and New Testaments. This book is now lost, and the details of
Marcion’s emendations have in consequence to be picked out from the
treatise of Tertullian against him, the statements of Epiphanius, and
the anonymous discourse _de Recta Fide_ which is sometimes included in
the works of Origen[713].
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