Anf-01 viii.iv.xxii Pg 4
Ps. l. (in E. V.).
Accordingly He neither takes sacrifices from you nor commanded them at first to be offered because they are needful to Him, but because of your sins. For indeed the temple, which is called the temple in Jerusalem, He admitted to be His house or court, not as though He needed it, but in order that you, in this view of it, giving yourselves to Him, might not worship idols. And that this is so, Isaiah says: ‘What house have ye built Me? saith the Lord. Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool.’2004 2004
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xxiv Pg 33
Gen. xxviii. 12–17.
For he had seen Christ the Lord, the temple of God, and also the gate by whom heaven is entered. Now surely he would not have mentioned the gate of heaven, if heaven is not entered in the dispensation of the3466 3466 Apud.
Creator. But there is now a gate provided by Christ, which admits and conducts to glory. Of this Amos says: “He buildeth His ascensions into heaven;”3467 3467
Npnf-201 iii.vii.xix Pg 24
Npnf-201 iii.vii.xix Pg 24
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxii Pg 55
Num. xii. 6–8.
Now, although Marcion has denied4372 4372 Noluit.
that he is here represented as speaking with the Lord, but only as standing, yet, inasmuch as he stood “mouth to mouth,” he must also have stood “face to face” with him, to use his words,4373 4373 It is difficult to see what this inquit means.
not far from him, in His very glory—not to say,4374 4374 Nedum.
in His presence. And with this glory he went away enlightened from Christ, just as he used to do from the Creator; as then to dazzle the eyes of the children of Israel, so now to smite those of the blinded Marcion, who has failed to see how this argument also makes against him.
