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| The Epistle to Philemon. This Epistle Not Mutilated. Marcion's Inconsistency in Accepting This, and Rejecting Three Other Epistles Addressed to Individuals. Conclusions. Tertullian Vindicates the Symmetry and Deliberate Purpose of His Work Against Marcion.
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Chapter XXI.—The Epistle to Philemon. This Epistle Not
Mutilated. Marcion’s Inconsistency in Accepting This, and
Rejecting Three Other Epistles Addressed to Individuals.
Conclusions. Tertullian Vindicates the Symmetry and Deliberate Purpose
of His Work Against Marcion.
To this epistle alone did its brevity avail to
protect it against the falsifying hands of Marcion. I wonder, however,
when he received (into his Apostolicon) this letter which was
written but to one man, that he rejected the two epistles to Timothy
and the one to Titus, which all treat of ecclesiastical discipline. His
aim, was, I suppose, to carry out his interpolating process even to the
number of (St. Paul’s) epistles. And now,
reader,6124
| 6124 Inspector:
perhaps critic. | I beg you to
remember that we have here adduced proofs out of the apostle, in
support of the subjects which we previously6125
| 6125 Retro: in the former
portions of this treatise. |
had to handle, and that we have now brought to a close6126
the topics which we deferred to this
(portion of our) work. (This favour I request of you,) that you may not
think that any repetition here has been superfluous, for we have
only fulfilled our former engagement to you; nor look with suspicion on
any postponement there, where we merely set forth the essential
points (of the argument).6127
| 6127 Qua eruimus ipsa
ista. | If you carefully
examine the entire work, you will acquit us of either having been
redundant here, or diffident there, in your own honest
judgment.6128
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