Tertullian’s talk (_adv. Marcion._ Bk I. c. 1) about its barbarism and the natives living in waggons is mere rhetoric. He probably knew nothing about the place. Footnote 691: _Stoicae studiosus._ Tertullian, _de Praescript._ c. XXX. Footnote 692: _Id._ _adv. Marc._ Bk IV. c. 4; and _de Praescript._ c. XXX., where the money is said to have been 200 sestertia or nearly £1800. Footnote 693: Tertullian, _adv. Marc._ Bk I. c. 2. Cf. Pseudo Tertullianus, _adv. omn._ _Haer._ c. XVI. Footnote 694: Neander, _Ch. Hist._ II. p. 150; cf. Tertullian, _de Praescript._ c. XLI. Footnote 695: _Ibid. op. cit._ c. XXX. Salmon (_Dict. Christian Biog._ _s.v._ Marcion) wishes to transfer this story to Cerdo. Footnote 696: Neander, _Church Hist._ II. p. 139, disbelieves it. Footnote 697: Justin Martyr, _First Apol._ cc. XXVI., LVIII. He writes as Marcion’s contemporary. Cf. Clem. Alex. _Strom._ Bk III. c. 3. Footnote 698: Epiphanius, _Haer._ XLII. p. 553, Oehler. Footnote 699: Tertullian, _adv. Marc._ Bk IV. c. 5. Footnote 700: Eusebius, _Hist. Eccl._ Bk IV. c. 14. Footnote 701: The council was held 692 A.D. See Salmon in _Dict. Christian Biog._ _s.v._ Marcion. Footnote 702: Tertullian, _adv. Marc._ Bk I. c. 27. Footnote 703: The story that he seduced a virgin is now generally held to mean merely that he corrupted the unsullied faith of the Church. Cf. Hegesippus in Eusebius, _Hist. Eccl._ Bk V. c. 22. So Salmon, _art. cit._ _supra_. As Neander points out (_Ch. Hist._ II. p. 136 note), Tertullian, had he known the story, would certainly have published it. Yet he contrasts Marcion’s chastity with the real or supposed incontinence of his follower, Apelles (_de Praescript._ c. XXX.). Footnote 704: Irenaeus, Bk I. c. 25, p. 219, Harvey. Footnote 705: Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk VII. c. 3, p. 370, Cruice. Footnote 706: So Salmon, _art. cit._, Renan, and others. This view, however, cannot apply to Justin Martyr who was, as we have seen, his contemporary. See n. 5. p. 205 _supra_. Footnote 707: See Salmon (_Dict. Christian Biog._ _s.v._ Marcion) for authorities. Footnote 708: See Harnack’s article on _Marcion_ in _Encyc. Brit._ (11th ed.). Footnote 709: Tertullian, _adv. Marc._ Bk IV. c. 2. Marcion apparently knew nothing of St John’s Gospel, which may not have become public till after his death. Had he done so, as Renan says (_L’Égl. Chrétienne_, p. 71), he would probably have preferred it to any other, because of its markedly anti-Jewish tendency. Footnote 710: According to him, Jesus was not born of woman. Cf. Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk VII. c. 31, pp. 383-384, Cruice. Footnote 711: The whole controversy is well summed up in Matter, _Hist. du Gnost._ t. II. pp. 238-242. Footnote 712: See Matter, _op. cit._ t. II. pp. 246-260, where Marcion’s emendations are given chapter by chapter and their sources cited. Footnote 713: