Anf-03 v.iv.vi.i Pg 15
Ex incursu: in allusion to St. Paul’s sudden conversion, Acts ix. 3–8. [On St. Paul’s Epistles, see p. 324, supra.]
rather than a deliberate selection; by necessity (so to speak), and not voluntary choice, although the members of the apostolate had been duly ordained, and were now dismissed to their several missions. Wherefore, O shipmaster of Pontus,5202 5202 Marcion is frequently called “Ponticus Nauclerus,” probably less on account of his own connection with a seafaring life, than that of his countrymen, who were great sailors. Comp. book. i. 18. (sub fin.) and book iii. 6. [pp. 284, 325.]
if you have never taken on board your small craft5203 5203 In acatos tuas.
any contraband goods or smuggler’s cargo, if you have never thrown overboard or tampered with a freight, you are still more careful and conscientious, I doubt not, in divine things; and so I should be glad if you would inform us under what bill of lading5204 5204 Quo symbolo.
you admitted the Apostle Paul on board, who ticketed him,5205 5205 Quis illum tituli charactere percusserit.
what owner forwarded him,5206 5206 Quis transmiserit tibi.
who handed him to you,5207 5207 Quis imposuerit.
that so you may land him without any misgiving,5208 5208 Constanter.
lest he should turn out to belong to him,5209 5209 Ne illius probetur, i.e., to the Catholic, for Marcion did not admit all St. Paul’s epistles (Semler).
who can substantiate his claim to him by producing all his apostolic writings.5210 5210 Omnia apostolatus ejus instrumenta.
He professes himself to be “an apostle”—to use his own, words—“not of men, nor by man, but by Jesus Christ.”5211 5211
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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 26
VERSE (13) - Ac 9:3; 22:6
