A very startling bit of information that, when, before arriving at the book of _Exodus_, we are told in _Genesis_ (xxii. 14) that “Abraham called the name of that place”--where the patriarch had been preparing to cut the throat of his only-begotten son--“JEHOVAH-jireh!” (Jehovah sees.) Which is the inspired text?--both cannot be--which the forgery? Now, if both Abraham and Moses had not belonged to the same holy group, we might, perhaps, help theologians by suggesting to them a convenient means of escape out of this dilemma. They ought to call the reverend Jesuit Fathers--especially those who have been missionaries in India--to their rescue. The latter would not be for a moment disconcerted. They would coolly tell us that beyond doubt Abraham had heard the name of Jehovah and _borrowed_ it from Moses. Do they not maintain that it was they who invented the _Sanscrit_, edited _Manu_, and composed the greater portion of the _Vedas?_ Marcion maintained, with the other Gnostics, the fallaciousness of the idea of an incarnate God, and therefore denied the corporeal reality of the living body of Christ. His entity was a mere _illusion_; it was not made of human flesh and blood, neither was it born of a human mother, for his divine nature could not be polluted with any contact with sinful flesh.[287] He accepted Paul as the only apostle preaching the pure gospel of truth, and accused the other disciples of “depraving the pure form of the gospel doctrines delivered to them by Jesus, mixing up matters of the Law with the words of the Saviour.”[288] Finally we may add that modern biblical criticism, which unfortunately became really active and serious only toward the end of the last century, now generally admits that Marcion’s text of the only gospel he knew anything about--that of Luke, is far superior and by far more correct than that of our present Synoptics. We find in _Supernatural Religion_ the following (for every Christian) startling sentence: “We are, therefore, _indebted to Marcion for the correct version even of ‘the Lords Prayer_.’”[289]