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1 Text(8) | transliteration of the Greek 0Ihsou~s must have been used by
2 Text | entered our domain. . . . ~[P. 102.] ~* * * * * * * ~* * * * * * * ~
3 Text(30)| Marcionite sources, see p. 106, 1. 40 ff. ~
4 Text(21)| by Aphraates (Wright, p. 110, 1. 11 — Pat. Syr. i 257)
5 Text(22)| 3 See Exod. xxiv 13. ~
6 Text | preceded (the [P. 79. l.16.] Stranger) should be called . . .
7 Text(3) | discovered by Clermont-Ganneau in 1871. Ephraim probably knew of
8 Text | l. 20.] For if in truth he was
9 Text(35)| J. M. Schmid's tr., p. 200). ~
10 Text(21)| Ephraim elsewhere (ES i 205C). ~
11 Text | 1. 21.] Perhaps thou wilt say
12 Text(26)| 1 Luke vii 23, but the wording is that
13 Text(36)| Ephr. arm in Epp. Pauli, p. 248). ~
14 Text(21)| 110, 1. 11 — Pat. Syr. i 257) and by Ephraim elsewhere (
15 Text | didst not intend to [1. 27.] buy ?]"... If again they
16 Text | a Messenger for the [l. 28.] King. Can it be that he
17 Text | they say that [l. 32.] because the souls had
18 Text(26)| xi 6 C. Epiphanius (Haer. 324) says Marcion read this '
19 Text | is really persecuted [1. 34.] like his Messenger ? . . .
20 Text(33)| 2 Luke ix 35, as in syr.C, and often
21 Text | 1. 36.] to the prophets he sent
22 Text | about mankind ? . . . [l. 39.] For if created things
23 Text | bear witness to all the [1. 41.] [false] teachings that
24 Text | the Maker had myriads [l. 46.] of angels, if to make
25 Text | THE (FALSE) TEACHINGS. [P. 50.] ~To the true Scriptures
26 Text | concerning that people [p. 51, l.4.] that it was the people
27 Text | each one of them about [P. 53.] his fellow was a denial
28 Text | about the [. . .] of [P. 54.] the 'Maker' and about
29 Text | sitting in his chariot. [P. 55.] Again, the prophets of
30 Text | followers of Marcion [P. 56.] and moreover towards those
31 Text | have afflictions been [P. 57.] announced ? And, again,
32 Text | Knowledge we all die, [P. 59.] likewise in consequence
33 Text | God) who showed great [P. 60.] grace at this time, (a
34 Text | mercy—which (signifies [P. 61.] that) He gave to him by
35 Text | P.62] The Jews say that in the
36 Text | repentance and to baptize the [P. 63.] repentant, he was sent
37 Text | the cultivated land ? ~[P. 64.] But nevertheless, although
38 Text | were more submissive [P. 65.] than . . ., whereas Herod
39 Text | P. 66, 1. 29.]. . . For even if
40 Text | credible will it be [p. 67.] that he is not 'strange'
41 Text | friends of Daniel ? 11 [P.68] If they say, 'We are praying
42 Text | and heavenly things, [P. 69, 1.6.] these are additions. . . .
43 Text | Testament). . . . ~[P. 70.] * * * * * * * ~[
44 Text | former ones ? And if he [P. 73.] did not wish to change (
45 Text | remains to the Stranger ? P. 74.] . . . of those things
46 Text | Justice of the Just One ? ~[P.75] [See] also, O Marcion,
47 Text | although he did not [P. 76.] compel him ; and (the
48 Text | which He preached you [P. 77.] think concerning Him that
49 Text | thing? . . . For the [P. 78, l.14.] priest was not allowed
50 Text | who had preceded (the [P. 79. l.16.] Stranger) should
51 Text | was not humbled that [P. 80.] strangeness arises ? Well,
52 Text | lo, He was manifested [P. 81.] to the whole People without
53 Text | or a true man ? Did [P. 82.] He say concerning him
54 Text | yet Isu bears witness [P. 83.] in saying concerning him
55 Text | P. 84.] ~[l. 40.] And if thou
56 Text | kind He did not wish [P. 85.] to [injure] John, then
57 Text | discernment; if He secretly [P. 86.] punishes them for their
58 Text | He did not set forth [P.88.] some symbol there for
59 Text | If such words were [P. 90.] put forward (lit. were
60 Text | But perhaps the Maker [p. 91.] said to him these very
61 Text | desire it eagerly on [P. 92.] account of its surpassing
62 Text | despised him and . . . [P.93.] against his disciples
63 Text | to tell us that he is [P. 95.] not the Son of the Maker,
64 Text | another God did not [P. 96.] refrain from (saying) '
65 Text | was fairer, why did He [P. 97] sell unadvisedly and become
66 Text | something great in return [P.98. 17] for something small ? . . .
67 Text | P. 99.] ~And if they should say
68 Text | the humility of Isu) he abandoned the exalted Son of David
69 Text | Did He not enter into the abode of Abraham and eat ? And
70 Text | did He pass through their abodes ? But if (the voice) came
71 Text | enter into the abode of Abraham and eat ? And if it was
72 Text | show (it) us, and we will accept (it) ! For Daniel used to
73 Text | so as to give him men to accompany him, when as yet he had
74 Text(20)| Isaiah lviii 5 ff. (not quite accurately cited). ~
75 Text | because Moses and Elijah were accustomed to that surpassing vision
76 Text | raise him from the dust—acknowledge, O Marcion, the justice
77 Text | Him. And the Stranger also acted likewise towards Simon (
78 Text | was seen in His creative action. And how was the wise Just
79 Text | not the truth. And if thou addest that He also went down to
80 Text | P. 69, 1.6.] these are additions. . . . What is the new (
81 Text | things — if it be right to admit that the Good (God) is angry
82 Text | that [P. 71.] he might adorn himself with them in the
83 Text | that they are both angry at adultery and theft and other hateful
84 Text | inscribed in the archives of Aegyptus ; and, again, the miracles
85 Text | us concerning your own (affairs) also,' then leave that (
86 Text | the Stranger, for lo ! one affection is found in both of them ;
87 Text | let us see to what our own affliction is like ; is it like that
88 Text | Him that His mercy should afford a covering to Philosophers
89 Text | Was the Maker then really afraid to come, and on that account
90 | afterwards
91 Text | pleasing (lit. chosen) and agreeable to one who loves, he invested
92 Text(36)| interpretation of the passage agrees with Ephraim's own Commentary (
93 Text | 78, l.14.] priest was not allowed to enter the Tabernacle
94 | alone
95 Text | constrained him by means of an angel21 to send her back, that
96 Text | fire is kindled in mine anger and [l. 19.] it will burn
97 Text | midst of Babylon were in the annals belonging to the kings of
98 Text | the prophets, how can he announce to us that we should accomplish
99 Text | was speaking, and God was answering with a voice. And again,
100 Text | seen that the Maker was antecedent to Isu in humiliation. And
101 Text(25)| the name 'Jesus' in the anti-Marcionite treatises. ~
102 Text | actually manifested, the Maker anticipated Him in manifestation. How
103 Text(21)| the passage is taken by Aphraates (Wright, p. 110, 1. 11 —
104 Text | be proclaimed ? But the Apostle says,36 'Eve shall live
105 Text(23)| 4 I.e., apparently, the Creator. ~
106 Text | Scriptures of the Church do not appeal to the testimony of the
107 Text(25)| 3 [Syriac] does appear to be the reading of the
108 Text(26)| parhllagme/non), referring the application of the saying to John: we
109 Text | everlasting. But if they apply the term 'strangeness' to
110 Text | He did not allow them to approach the holy mountain because
111 Note1 | words. In respect to this an approximately correct inference may be
112 Note2 | numbered with Roman numerals. Arabic numbers and line numbers
113 Note1 | attempt to summarise the argument from suggestions in the
114 Text(36)| s own Commentary (Ephr. arm in Epp. Pauli, p. 248). ~
115 Text | also went down to Sheol and ascended, thou sayest (it) without
116 Text | And if they say, 'You are asking us concerning your own (
117 Text | any means disown him (by asserting) that he was not the Son
118 Text | wind. ~Thus both of these assertions cannot stand. For either
119 Text | Seven Gods, when another asserts after him in confirmation
120 Text | they might set right and assist that which had been created ?
121 Text | that we should say that He ate and that He was manifested
122 Text | be sufficient to meet the attack of the Stranger, and therefore
123 Note1 | mutilation, italics indicate an attempt to summarise the argument
124 Text(35)| Marcionites as a proof-text is attested also by Eznik (J. M. Schmid'
125 Text | of them, so that he might attract the inhabitants of our world
126 Text | pleasing to them. And if he attracts us by something that is
127 Text | Again, the prophets of Baal were battening at Jezebel'
128 Text | doctrines ? And (as for) the babes and the seed-corn and the
129 Text | And he (i.e. John the Baptist) does not say, 'they look,'
130 Text | sinners to repentance and to baptize the [P. 63.] repentant,
131 Text | the prophets of Baal were battening at Jezebel's table, and
132 Text | of the Marcionites were bearing witness on [our] behalf.
133 Text | David's Son, and yet Isu bears witness [P. 83.] in saying
134 Text | be that by means of the beatitude he actually wished to deceive
135 Text | nature ? And if five hundred Beatitudes do not change our nature,
136 | becomes
137 | beginning
138 Text | bearing witness on [our] behalf. But the blasphemies [of]
139 | behind
140 Text | destined to lead created beings astray, and did He give
141 Text | was likely to make them believe that he was the Messenger
142 Text | thou sayest (it) without believing (it). For thou dost not
143 Text | the cloud of Moses, etc., belonged to the Maker, and the prophets
144 Text | and moreover one will belongs to both [P. 101.] of them,
145 Text | LORD, that thou shouldst bend thy neck like a rush and
146 Text(7) | the Tree of Life is not a Biblical phrase. ~
147 Text | the sea into a royal city bitterness is (still) in it. And so
148 Text | on [our] behalf. But the blasphemies [of] the Marcion[ites]—it
149 Text | to Him, why do they utter blasphemy by means of the Strangeness
150 Text | them is it who strikes (the blow), or which is it who is
151 Text | thou shouldst loose the bonds of iniquity, and give thy
152 Text(11)| an integral part of the Book of Daniel. ~
153 Text | And would that they all bore witness to the Scriptures
154 Note1 | in italics inside square brackets are to be regarded as conjectural
155 Text | God who could be found to break into the enclosure, which
156 Text | in its turn. For if thou bringest some of the water of the
157 Text | this city that it should be built.' 2 Thus the miracles which
158 Text | anger and [l. 19.] it will burn unto the lowest Sheol.' 35
159 Text | Isu) : "If thou art really buying, in order to buy mankind,29
160 Text | 16.] Stranger) should be called . . . since there is no
161 Text | Can it be that He was calling to Moses, etc., that He
162 Text | did not go straight to the capital of the kingdom. Why did
163 Note1 | commas are used in numerous cases where the words seem to
164 Text | Jeremiah the prophet is cast into a miry pit, while Zedekiah,
165 Text | suppose that) Elijah was caught up to the heavens of the
166 Text | were] housing themselves in caves. ~The followers (?) of Marcion
167 Text | Marcion still persists in cavilling, let him be asked again
168 Text | the Maker, that He should cease to guard His city and His
169 Text | round (?) and say that by chance, as it were, John only happened
170 Text | account of its surpassing character. Well, then, in short, they
171 Text | was sitting in his chariot. [P. 55.] Again, the prophets
172 Text | he should give again his cheek to him who smites. . . . ~* * * * * * * ~[
173 Text | books of the Hebrews in the chronicles which belong to them, according
174 Text | enumerated to thee [I will cite] the words of David, when
175 Text | But are these whom thou citest like him or not ? If they
176 Text(17)| 5 Ps. cix 24. ~
177 Text | classes of persons, namely the class of the mature (?), and another (
178 Text | methods he taught) two classes of persons, namely the class
179 Text | are levelled and stones cleared away before them. But before (
180 Text(4) | sacred limits. The MS. clearly reads [Syriac], p. 52, 1.
181 Text(3) | these was discovered by Clermont-Ganneau in 1871. Ephraim probably
182 Text | saying), 'Art thou He that cometh ?' But it is wonderful to
183 Text | to shine for them ? Who commands the earth to bear them,
184 Text(36)| agrees with Ephraim's own Commentary (Ephr. arm in Epp. Pauli,
185 Text | angry with those who have committed no offence whatever against
186 Text | might show that he did not communicate (lit. deliver over) to him
187 Text | virgin, and were not all his companions holy ? (But I reply, Nay—)
188 Text | found on the mountain in company with Isu, what do they (
189 Text | sayest that thou wilt not compare creatures to God — for '
190 Text | of promise. We have thus compared Isu with the Maker, and
191 Text | that time on account of His compassion, (so) He has kept him alive
192 Text | was not He ? And what then compelled him to send to Him ? If (
193 Text | He is kind will He not [condemn] the heathen and the [wicked]
194 Text | it). For thou dost not confess the [coming to life of]
195 Text | the Maker, but it actually confirmed it that he is the Son of
196 Note1 | brackets are to be regarded as conjectural translations or paraphrases.~
197 Text | And which of the sides conquered there or lost ? But that
198 Text | Him. And it will also be (considered) that that nature of the
199 Text | greater than all things which (consist) of dust and ashes (?),
200 Text(26)| infer that the corruption consisted in reading e0a_n mh_ for
201 Text | Bardaisan said [seven Entities constitute] the world he nevertheless
202 Note1 | inference may be drawn by consulting the Syriac text.~Double
203 Text | kindled from it and will then consume it in its turn. For if thou
204 Text | fire is kindled and it then consumes Him in His turn, (in the
205 Text | righteous and the prophets the contrary of these things (takes place),
206 Text | coming ? Perhaps (they were convinced by) the fact that he was
207 Text(15)| 2 1 Cor. ii 8 (knew it, syr.vg.). ~
208 Note1 | to this an approximately correct inference may be drawn by
209 Text(6) | passage, see the list of Corrigenda. The Palimpsest is to me (
210 Text(26)| John: we may infer that the corruption consisted in reading e0a_
211 Text(26)| says Marcion read this 'corruptly' (parhllagme/non), referring
212 Text | His mercy should afford a covering to Philosophers and Magians
213 Text | Gods prevent the Maker from creating that which is not good ?
214 Text | Stranger was seen in His creative action. And how was the
215 Text | refute them, how much more credible will it be [p. 67.] that
216 Text | sayest that Isu was actually crucified, thou sayest that it seemed
217 Text | would be right for Him to cry out. How much more when
218 Text | nevertheless, (while) he was crying out all the [time (?)] about
219 Note1 | l.2] means line 2 of the current page of the accompanying
220 Text | beatitude he actually wished to deceive John ? And was [P. 87.]
221 Text | His great grace was not deemed strange when it was manifested
222 Text(36)| and the note should be deleted. The reading and interpretation
223 Text | did not communicate (lit. deliver over) to him that other (
224 Text | P. 53.] his fellow was a denial of his own teaching. For
225 Text | Give me men, and I will not depart from Thy house, that is,
226 Text | Nebuchadnezzar and by Darius were deposited among the archives of the
227 Text | the Maker ? And why did He descend to it ? If, as it were,
228 Text | aforesaid Maker the Stranger descended to it, then He did not snatch
229 Text | the Maker learn from the descent of Isu that he was also
230 Text | in order that they might desire it eagerly on [P. 92.] account
231 Text | angels, if to make war [He desired] ... Or were they with [
232 Text | with the Maker, if [his desires hankered] 34 after men,
233 Text | see how much the Maker despised him and . . . [P.93.] against
234 Text | these he (i.e. Isu) was destined to lead created beings astray,
235 Text(6) | 1 For the details of the reconstruction of
236 Text(35)| 3 Deut. xxxii 22. The use of this
237 Text(9) | 2 Luke vii 19, but differing from the Syriac Bible. ~
238 Text | them to attain to all this discernment; if He secretly [P. 86.]
239 Text(3) | Temple ; one of these was discovered by Clermont-Ganneau in 1871.
240 Text | have left behind (in our discussion), come and agree with him
241 Text | it did not by any means disown him (by asserting) that
242 Text | he wrote (a letter) and dispatched it to him, and sent to him (
243 Text | to Adam 'strangeness' was displayed. For the same (God) decreed
244 Text | Paradise, and afterwards (God) dissolved him and caused him to return
245 Text | People were standing at a distance, and Moses the holy was
246 Text | beforehand . . . and the dividing of the sea and the cloud,
247 Text | been killed ! Or can then a Divine Nature suffer pain, either
248 Text | Magians and all manner of doctrines ? And (as for) the babes
249 Text | that the unjust and the doers of evil enjoy themselves,
250 | done
251 Note1 | consulting the Syriac text.~Double inverted commas mark quotations
252 Note1 | correct inference may be drawn by consulting the Syriac
253 Text | his prayer he interpreted dreams and brought back the People
254 Text | the desert ? But if they drove him out, did they not treat
255 Text | that He has come. If He dwells in pure hearts, He is therefore
256 Text | already announced earthly things to the simple-minded,
257 Text | place, as He said.' ~But the Edicts which had been written by
258 Note2 | Note of the electronic source~I have moved the
259 Text | Stranger, lo, Elijah and Elishah and the sons of the prophets (
260 | else
261 Text | was before him, so as to enable us to say that he (i.e.
262 Text | which the Just One had enclosed by means of the Cherub and
263 Text | quiet (and refrained) from engaging in battle. And as to his
264 Text | unjust and the doers of evil enjoy themselves, and He is found
265 Text | His own. For He promises enjoyments to those who keep His commandments,
266 Text | error, or that he was an enlightener of such as are in error ?
267 Text | it; why wilt thou stir up enmity for thyself with the Maker
268 Text | than that of Elijah and Enoch ? And why then did He not
269 Text | Isu) was denied when he entered our domain. . . . ~[P. 102.] ~* * * * * * * ~* * * * * * * ~
270 Text | though Bardaisan said [seven Entities constitute] the world he
271 Text(32)| 9 See Eph. i 4. ~
272 Text(36)| Ephraim's own Commentary (Ephr. arm in Epp. Pauli, p. 248). ~
273 Text(26)| is that of Matt, xi 6 C. Epiphanius (Haer. 324) says Marcion
274 Text(36)| Commentary (Ephr. arm in Epp. Pauli, p. 248). ~
275 Text | to our nature (it would equally follow"). Or do they say
276 Text | But as for this John, who erred [in thinking that it was
277 Text | the followers of Marcion erroneously assert. But if he was not
278 Text(21)| and by Ephraim elsewhere (ES i 205C). ~
279 Text | the heaven of the Maker, especially when the mountain was the
280 Text | witnesses every word is established ! ~But if thou sayest that
281 Text | himself made him (i.e. the Evangelist) a liar who recorded that
282 Text | But the Apostle says,36 'Eve shall live on account of
283 | ever
284 | everything
285 Note1 | asterisks intended to bear any exact relation to the number of
286 Text | of Isu) he abandoned the exalted Son of David and loved the
287 Text | the prophets Isu [took an example] that [P. 71.] he might
288 Text | sons of the prophets (are examples thereof), and lo, John,
289 Text | the Just One were not more excellent than that of the Stranger,
290 | except
291 Text | i.e. the Stranger) not exert Himself in the case of the
292 Text | the Jews) with all this exertion was not able to attain to
293 Text | His love warn Adam who was existing in a good state, lest he
294 Text | who spoke, by the Prophets exists as the result of a 'mixture,'
295 Text | who even until to-day are expecting to go up to Jerusalem, and
296 Text | And that we may not explore too far into the perverse
297 Text(31)| three illegible lines must express something like " before
298 Text(8) | not preserved elsewhere in extant Syriac literature, the genuine
299 Text | grace of the Maker [lo,] is extended even over the followers
300 Text | cannot keep the fast of Ezekiel, nor have they (ever) prayed,
301 Text(35)| proof-text is attested also by Eznik (J. M. Schmid's tr., p.
302 Text(6) | The Palimpsest is to me (F. C. B.) illegible. ~
303 Text | true things by means of his faithful ones and by means of his
304 Text | that we may not explore too far into the perverse tale of
305 Text | thereof), and lo, John, who fasted in his own days (i.e. in
306 Text | were thought to be in their favour, inasmuch as their witnesses
307 Text | severe One [came and was favouring] the wicked and oppressing
308 Text | them about [P. 53.] his fellow was a denial of his own
309 | few
310 Text | of Paradise and did not find any other God to bring him
311 Text | was not this because he firmly believed that he was to
312 | first
313 Text | change our nature ? And if five hundred Beatitudes do not
314 Text | through fasting, and my flesh is wasted for want of ointment,'
315 Text | the Seventy -two from the [flock] 30 of another ? . . . 31
316 Text(30)| illegible, but for the idea of ' flocks' and ' shepherds ' in Marcionite
317 Text | nature (it would equally follow"). Or do they say that he
318 Text | according to the Law runs on foot in front of him who is cursed
319 Text(13)| 3 Delete the footnote, p. 71, 1. 37. ~
320 Note2 | source~I have moved the footnotes to the end. Those consisting
321 Text(4) | 4 I.e. Foreigners are not to enter the Jews'
322 | formerly
323 Text | words were [P. 90.] put forward (lit. were in the midst),
324 Text | that said that before the foundation of the world thou knewest
325 Text | marriage the creation should be fruitful and multiply. For by the
326 Note1 | translation by dots, and longer gaps by asterisks, but in neither
327 Text | followers of Marcion are gathered together they cannot keep
328 Text | can it be that even the general of Herod was greater than
329 Text(8) | extant Syriac literature, the genuine Semitic form Yeshu' or '
330 Text | thee to buy the mountain, get down off it; why wilt thou
331 Text | says,18 'Sackcloth have I girded on my skin, and I have sprinkled
332 Text | was removed, or that the girl played with his skull! But
333 Text | nature, if he utters (lit. gives) them we are not able to
334 Text | the simple-minded. For he gladdened the simple-minded with promises
335 Text | fruits, that the perfect goodness of the Stranger might be
336 Text | earth to bear them, and governs the sky for them ? Thou
337 Text | compassionate [in Him and gracious] to these who are here tormented ;
338 Text | in the prophets, but are greatly pleasing to our nature (
339 Text(8) | this transliteration of the Greek 0Ihsou~s must have been
340 Text | those) belonging to the Greeks, and the Romans likewise,
341 Text | punishes them for their grievous sins, He becomes an evil
342 Text | that when all the scattered groups (lit. fragments) of the
343 Text | Marcion, who causes them to grow ? And who sends down the
344 Text | they say that they were guardians there. And what. pray, were
345 Text | prepared as it were for the guest-chamber of Him that was to come,
346 Text(26)| Matt, xi 6 C. Epiphanius (Haer. 324) says Marcion read
347 Text | Scriptures that are in the hands of the Marcionites were
348 Text | the Maker, if [his desires hankered] 34 after men, why was he [
349 Text | of grace and tempered the harshness of justice, that Adam might
350 Text | His), because He would not hate His own nature and love
351 | hath
352 Text | and I have sprinkled my head with dust.' And again David
353 Text | come. If He dwells in pure hearts, He is therefore spiritual;
354 Text | will He not [condemn] the heathen and the [wicked] and [will]
355 Text | pray concerning great and heavenly things, [P. 69, 1.6.] these
356 Text(7) | but the enclosure (or 'hedge') of the Tree of Life is
357 | hence
358 Text | For if in truth he was His herald ... a Messenger for the [
359 Text | the Creator went into a hiding-place, that the creation might
360 Text | them beforehand, nothing hinders (?) : this mountain that
361 Text | some of His good things hither also ? Or (was it) because
362 Text | reed does not permit us to hold this opinion concerning
363 Text(10)| 3 Hole in MS. ~
364 Text | till now for the milk and honey ? Thou seest, therefore,
365 Text | the true prophets [were] housing themselves in caves. ~The
366 Text | bodies that are from HULE that he bought, or souls ?
367 Text | and give thy bread to the hungry, and bring the alien into
368 Text(30)| is illegible, but for the idea of ' flocks' and ' shepherds '
369 Text | namely humiliation and ignominy. For Jeremiah the prophet
370 Text | by) the fact that he was imprisoned, or that he was removed,
371 Text(16)| 3 Matt, v 5 and 3 inaccurately cited). ~
372 Text | the mountain in order to incite Moses, etc., so that because
373 Text | virtue of the fact that he incites us by 'Blessed are the humble
374 Text | know that they too are included in this (objection). For
375 Note1 | great mutilation, italics indicate an attempt to summarise
376 Note1 | 10):~[Short lacunae are indicated in the translation by dots,
377 Note1 | the fragments.]~[P.101] indicates page 101 of the accompanying
378 Text(26)| the saying to John: we may infer that the corruption consisted
379 Note1 | an approximately correct inference may be drawn by consulting
380 Text | that he might attract the inhabitants of our world by the humility
381 | instead
382 Text(11)| the Three Children as an integral part of the Book of Daniel. ~
383 Text | when as yet [thou didst not intend to [1. 27.] buy ?]"... If
384 Text | unadvisedly did Isu [1.42.] interpose, ... If they say that in
385 Text(36)| deleted. The reading and interpretation of the passage agrees with
386 Text | by means of his prayer he interpreted dreams and brought back
387 Text | And Marcion, though he introduced a 'Stranger,' nevertheless, (
388 Note1 | Note from Vol. 1 Introduction, p. (10):~[Short lacunae
389 Text | agreeable to one who loves, he invested himself with them and made
390 Text(5) | 5 This is meant ironically. ~
391 Text(8) | Semitic form Yeshu' or 'Isho' (i.e. Joshua) being found
392 Text | blasphemies [of] the Marcion[ites]—it is [the books of] the
393 | itself
394 Text(33)| 2 Luke ix 35, as in syr.C, and often
395 Text | of Baal were battening at Jezebel's table, and the true prophets [
396 Text(3) | probably knew of them through Josephus (B J v 5, 2). ~
397 Text | die.' For our God decreed justly and in order that He might
398 Text | die'—and how is He found keeping him alive for nine hundred
399 Text | compassion, (so) He has kept him alive even now in the
400 Text | and there is no end to his kindness, He would surely, not have
401 Text | nature, there is a great kinship between Him and the Stranger,
402 Text | David, when he says,17 'My knees are weak through fasting,
403 Text | foundation of the world thou knewest them ? 32 Why then didst
404 Text | that 'there is none that knoweth the Father save the Son' ?14 [
405 Text | his eating of the Tree of Knowledge we all die, [P. 59.] likewise
406 Text | his grace towards him—is known to be the same (God) who
407 Text | And if not even this was lacking to Him, why do they utter
408 Note1 | Introduction, p. (10):~[Short lacunae are indicated in the translation
409 Text(3) | 3 This refers to the sth~lai set up round the Temple ;
410 | last
411 Text | unadvisedly and become a laughing-stock ? And if that which He gave
412 Text | of Marcion, whom we have left behind (in our discussion),
413 Text | existing in a good state, lest he should exist in an evil
414 Text | can it be that he wrote (a letter) and dispatched it to him,
415 Text | or kings' sons, ways are levelled and stones cleared away
416 Text | the word of Isu was also a lie, when he testified concerning
417 Text | lo,] then Isu really lied in that he said concerning
418 Text | How therefore canst thou liken Isu to that Stranger, who
419 Text | all of us he taught the likeness of true things by means
420 Text(31)| 7 The three illegible lines must express something like "
421 Text(6) | of this passage, see the list of Corrigenda. The Palimpsest
422 Text(8) | elsewhere in extant Syriac literature, the genuine Semitic form
423 Text | then the Maker will have lived on account of the souls
424 Text | Zedekiah, an unjust man, is living in luxury. Or can it then
425 Note1 | translation by dots, and longer gaps by asterisks, but in
426 Text | LORD, that thou shouldst loose the bonds of iniquity, and
427 Text | and agreeable to one who loves, he invested himself with
428 Text | it will burn unto the lowest Sheol.' 35 If He is a nature
429 Text | unjust man, is living in luxury. Or can it then have been
430 Text(20)| 1 Isaiah lviii 5 ff. (not quite accurately
431 Text(19)| 8 Ps. lxix 11 [12]. ~
432 Text(35)| attested also by Eznik (J. M. Schmid's tr., p. 200). ~
433 Text | covering to Philosophers and Magians and all manner of doctrines ?
434 Text | that was to come, and it is manifest that He has come. If He
435 Text | Maker anticipated Him in manifestation. How therefore canst thou
436 Text | Pillar and the Quails and the Manna and all the Signs and all
437 Text(30)| flocks' and ' shepherds ' in Marcionite sources, see p. 106, 1.
438 Note1 | Double inverted commas mark quotations where the original
439 Text | wished that by means of marriage the creation should be fruitful
440 Text | they were turning again to married life ; but the People were
441 Text | Stranger ? . . . ~That thou mayest know that these others also [
442 Text(5) | 5 This is meant ironically. ~
443 Text | would be sufficient to meet the attack of the Stranger,
444 Text | though the Messiah who is (mentioned) in the Law is strange to
445 Text | by means of these two (methods he taught) two classes of
446 Text | looking till now for the milk and honey ? Thou seest,
447 Text | because 'a fire is kindled in mine anger and [l. 19.] it will
448 Text | the prophet is cast into a miry pit, while Zedekiah, an
449 Note1 | relation to the number of the missing words. In respect to this
450 Text | who purchased them make a. mistake about them ? And even if
451 Text | that mankind might not be mistaken, owing to the mountain and
452 Text | exists as the result of a 'mixture,' nevertheless said concerning
453 Text | and would have brought the mortal Adam into the presence of
454 Text | days, seeing that at the mouth of two witnesses every word
455 Note2 | electronic source~I have moved the footnotes to the end.
456 Text | creation should be fruitful and multiply. For by the case of Elijah,
457 Note1 | text has suffered great mutilation, italics indicate an attempt
458 Text | sent ? For the Maker had myriads [l. 46.] of angels, if to
459 Text | companions holy ? (But I reply, Nay—) for here (i.e. at Sinai)
460 Text | which had been written by Nebuchadnezzar and by Darius were deposited
461 Text | in thinking that it was necessary] that he should send to
462 Text | that thou shouldst bend thy neck like a rush and spread out
463 Text(26)| corruptly' (parhllagme/non), referring the application
464 Note2 | of Syriac. The pages are numbered with Roman numerals. Arabic
465 Note2 | are numbered with Roman numerals. Arabic numbers and line
466 Text(26)| in reading e0a_n mh_ for o4j e0a_n mh_ . ~
467 Text | too are included in this (objection). For why did not their
468 Text(25)| palimpsest. It is the only occurrence of the ordinary Syriac form
469 Text | those who have committed no offence whatever against Him. And
470 | often
471 Text | flesh is wasted for want of ointment,' and Job says,18 'Sackcloth
472 Note2 | syriac]" or similar have been omitted, as it has not been possible
473 Text | holiness wished to be the opponent of the Creator, who wished
474 Text | promises of the earth, and oppressed (?) the mature by severe
475 Text | favouring] the wicked and oppressing the good ? ~But it was not
476 Text(25)| the only occurrence of the ordinary Syriac form of the name '
477 Note1 | mark quotations where the original has [Syriac]~Single inverted
478 | ours
479 Text | of the Jews has not been outgrown (lit. weaned), since these (
480 Text | of the Stranger, so as to overthrow the opinion which they had
481 Text | fell from grace, Justice overtook him, according as it (had)
482 Text | mankind might not be mistaken, owing to the mountain and the
483 Text | perverse tale of Marcion, this pact that Moses, etc., agreed
484 Note2 | fragments of Syriac. The pages are numbered with Roman
485 Text | when as yet he had not paid their price to Him. Or was
486 Text | then a Divine Nature suffer pain, either the Maker's or the
487 Note2 | printed at the back of the paper volume. ~ ~
488 Text(29)| and so throughout the paragraph. ~
489 Text(2) | 2 Ezra iv 15, vi 1 ff. (paraphrased). ~
490 Note1 | conjectural translations or paraphrases.~In a few passages, where
491 Text(26)| Marcion read this 'corruptly' (parhllagme/non), referring the application
492 Text(11)| Children as an integral part of the Book of Daniel. ~
493 Text | purchased by Him, why did He pass through their abodes ? But
494 Note1 | or paraphrases.~In a few passages, where the text has suffered
495 Text(21)| Wright, p. 110, 1. 11 — Pat. Syr. i 257) and by Ephraim
496 Text(36)| Commentary (Ephr. arm in Epp. Pauli, p. 248). ~
497 Text | is, Thy creation, until I pay Thee their price ' ? And
498 Text | For if the Gods are at peace, why do they contend about
499 Text | them) off without any one perceiving him ? But perhaps the Maker [
500 Text | of the fruits, that the perfect goodness of the Stranger