Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxv Pg 12
See Lev. xiii. and xiv.
The interpretation of this sense it will be our task to ascertain. Marcion’s labour, however, is to object to us the strictness4870 4870 Morositatem.
of the law, with the view of maintaining that here also Christ is its enemy—forestalling4871 4871 Prævenientem.
its enactments even in His cure of the ten lepers. These He simply commanded to show themselves to the priest; “and as they went, He cleansed them”4872 4872
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.v Pg 39
Lev. xiii. 2–6.
What so mean as the statute of retaliation? What so contemptible as the exception in meats and drinks? The whole of the Old Testament, the heretic, to the best of my belief, holds in derision. For God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound its wisdom. Marcion’s god has no such discipline, because he does not take after5423 5423 Æmulatur.
(the Creator) in the process of confusing opposites by their opposites, so that “no flesh shall glory; but, as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.”5424 5424
