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
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
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.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 iv.ix.xiv Pg 25
See Lev. xvi.
Do not they, too, point to each successive stage in the character of the Christ who is already come? A pair, on the one hand, and consimilar (they were), because of the identity of the Lord’s general appearance, inasmuch as He is not to come in some other form, seeing that He has to be recognised by those by whom He was once hurt. But the one of them, begirt with scarlet, amid cursing and universal spitting, and tearing, and piercing, was cast away by the People outside the city into perdition, marked with manifest tokens of Christ’s passion; who, after being begirt with scarlet garment, and subjected to universal spitting, and afflicted with all contumelies, was crucified outside the city.1468 1468 Comp. Heb. xiii. 10–13. It is to be noted, however, that all this spitting, etc., formed no part of the divinely ordained ceremony.
The other, however, offered for sins, and given as food to the priests merely of the temple,1469 1469
Anf-01 ii.ii.viii Pg 6
Isa. i. 16–20.
Desiring, therefore, that all His beloved should be partakers of repentance, He has, by His almighty will, established [these declarations]. 
