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501 Text    |          is no argument), for what thief is there who will steal
502         | through
503 Text    |       Being) who existed in former times. But this thing, which they
504 Text    |      Marcionites adorned with fair titles One who in His conduct is
505 Text    |          is at variance with their tongue, just as their intention
506 Text    |     snatching us from Him, He only took us to Himself in a loving
507         | towards
508 Note2   |           has not been possible to transcribe the fragments of Syriac. 
509 Text    |           but they did not undergo transformation on account of 5 . . .~*     *     *     *     *     *     *~*     *     *     *     *     *     *~[
510 Text    |       mercy save to those who have transgressed His just law, for if He
511 Text(4) |              1 The same word as is translated 'creative power,' pp. lv (
512 Note1   |            regarded as conjectural translations or paraphrases.~In a few
513 Text    |          when contumacious persons treat Him as a stranger because
514 Text    |           in order that when He is treated as a stranger on account
515 Text(9) |        word [Syriac], which occurs twice in this context, is legible
516 Text    |           as one who is mighty and tyrannical.~But since the followers
517 Text    |            P. 129.] account of the tyranny of Pharaoh, but they did
518 Text    |             does not come] from an unchangeable Existence. But if it is
519 Text    |          Pharaoh, but they did not undergo transformation on account
520 Text    |       filch something hateful and [undesirable] in his own eyes ? Why therefore
521 Text    |           is to themselves a thing unheard of ; for their hearing [
522 Text    |         cannot conquer, it is then unjust in the Stranger to demand
523         | unless
524 Text    |            perversely, yet for the upright Teacher it was not seemly
525 Text    |         not seemly. But even if we utter the blasphemy (only) with
526 Text    |           the new sayings which He uttered, then because He did not
527 Text(13)|                             2 Luke v 36 (Matt, ix 16).~
528 Text(10)|           Lit. 'natures,' i.e. the various distinct species.~
529 Text    |           did not taste death—laws varying from nation to nation would
530 Text    |            from this [convention] (vd. n. 9) of the Maker it is
531 Text(12)|                             2 Luke vi 10.~
532 Text    |           possibility of our being victorious. But if, when the souls
533 Text    |         wishes to do is completely visible to Him: But perhaps thou
534 Text    |         light, and the ear for His voice, why then does the body
535 Note1   |                          Note from Vol. 1 Introduction, p. (10):~[
536 Note2   |           at the back of the paper volume.  ~ ~
537 Text    |           Marcion are not [able to walk, in slippery places how]
538 Text    |           For if in the [straight] way the followers of Marcion
539 Text    |           many laws, that in many (ways) He might restrain the audacity
540 Text    |       struggle, and therefore also weapons and crucifixion are necessary
541         | well
542         | while
543         | whoever
544         | whom
545 Text    |           to Him: But perhaps thou wilt say, 'Lo, creatures were
546 Text    |      command that the hands should wither up. But instead of this
547 Text    |      commanded that hand which was withered to be stretched forth ; 12
548         | within
549 Text    |         anything, its change bears witness concerning it that it [does
550 Text    |           contentiousness which is wont to resist abundant (proofs),
551 Text    |          seen that the organs are (works) of God, and our Lord, who
552 Text    |               P.113 1. 16.] a rent worse than the former one 13 . . . '
553 Text    |    pardoner of debtors necessarily wrongs the creditor. "But," it
554 Text    |       repair of a work can only be wrought by means of that workmanship
555 Text(1) |           rendered 'limbs,' see p. xxi, 1. ] 1, where Ephraim says "
556 Text(5) |            and the Sundial (Isaiah xxxviii 8), p. 129, 11. 15-22. ~