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 1 Text|                 of [P. 54.] the 'Maker' and about His preaching
 2 Text|             in the region of the Maker . . . but on the other hand (
 3 Text|       see that] the grace of the Maker [lo,] is extended even over
 4 Text|        that all the grace of our Maker is (shown) towards the followers
 5 Text|       not their Gods prevent the Maker from creating that which
 6 Text|        one and stronger than our Maker, he would have broken into
 7 Text|        send the prophets and the Maker did not send Isu, then from
 8 Text| qualities of Isu ? ~Did then the Maker really know that by means
 9 Text|        if it be that because the Maker did know He announced them
10 Text|      these] two Gods, namely the Maker and the Stranger, are both
11 Text|          the same thing. For the Maker is angry at hateful things,
12 Text|        know that this is so, the Maker sanctified Moses and sent
13 Text|       him by force, He (i.e. the Maker) constrained him by means
14 Text|          holy in relation to the Maker ? And Joshua was a virgin,
15 Text|     found that Isu resembles the Maker ; for the Maker sanctified
16 Text|    resembles the Maker ; for the Maker sanctified the chief of
17 Text|           virgin] of the [l.38.] Maker had preceded those many [
18 Text|         would be right that that Maker who had preceded (the [P.
19 Text|          latter and imitated the Maker. How is he the Stranger ?
20 Text|          was humbled whereas the Maker was not humbled that [P.
21 Text|         was humbled resemble the Maker who was humbled ! For in
22 Text|        found) in the case of the Maker, they (i.e. the Marcionites)
23 Text|       thus compared Isu with the Maker, and it has been seen that
24 Text|        it has been seen that the Maker was antecedent to Isu in
25 Text|         actually manifested, the Maker anticipated Him in manifestation.
26 Text|       account Him strange to the Maker when He resembles Him in
27 Text|         been anything on it, the Maker would have had the Cherub
28 Text|     stranger to Him (i.e. to the Maker) they were guarding the
29 Text|       them was greater 28 to the Maker, that He should cease to
30 Text|          he make war against the Maker or . . . ? . . . ~*     *     *     *     *     *     * ~[
31 Text|         were they sent ? For the Maker had myriads [l. 46.] of
32 Text|      enmity for thyself with the Maker about nothing ? But the
33 Text|     found by thee to give to the Maker, for He has given no pledge."
34 Text|         And were it not that our Maker is good and there is no
35 Text|           And did Isu say to the Maker, 'Give me men, and I will
36 Text|        price ' ? And did not the Maker learn from the descent of
37 Text| perceiving him ? But perhaps the Maker [p. 91.] said to him these
38 Text|         surpassing vision of the Maker Isu shewed them that (his
39 Text|     glory) surpassed that of the Maker, in order that they might
40 Text|         heaven, see how much the Maker despised him and . . . [
41 Text|          fight [a God] ! Was the Maker then really afraid to come,
42 Text|          suffer pain, either the Maker's or the Stranger's ? And
43 Text|          not suffer, why did the Maker not come against him ? Or
44 Text|        preparing battle with the Maker, if [his desires hankered] 34
45 Text|        it from the heaven of the Maker ? And why did He descend
46 Text|         account of the aforesaid Maker the Stranger descended to
47 Text|      came from the heaven of the Maker, who is to tell us that
48 Text|          95.] not the Son of the Maker, in a case where the voice
49 Text|    coming from the heaven of the Maker, especially when the mountain
50 Text|          was the mountain of the Maker, and the cloud of Moses,
51 Text|     Moses, etc., belonged to the Maker, and the prophets likewise
52 Text|        were the prophets) of the Maker ? ~For if the voice had
53 Text|       was from the heaven of the Maker, it did not by any means
54 Text|        he was not the Son of the Maker, but it actually confirmed
55 Text|        that he is the Son of the Maker, and the servants of his
56 Text|     there had been a battle, the Maker would not have remained
57 Text|       fairer than that which the Maker created for Himself ? And
58 Text|      souls which (come) from the Maker are polluted as the source (
59 Text|         her children' : then the Maker will have lived on account
60 Text|       came) from Him. Or did the Maker not wish to live thus ?
61 Text|        and they are not from the Maker. And let them tell us whence
62 Text|       that they are not from the Maker. For He would not sell them (