Anf-03 v.iv.v.viii Pg 11
Luke iv. 24.
Here at once, when I observe that they laid their hands on Him, I cannot help drawing a conclusion respecting His bodily substance, which cannot be believed to have been a phantom,3686 3686 A rebuke of Marcion’s Docetic views of Christ.
since it was capable of being touched and even violently handled, when He was seized and taken and led to the very brink of a precipice. For although He escaped through the midst of them, He had already experienced their rough treatment, and afterwards went His way, no doubt3687 3687 Scilicet.
because the crowd (as usually happens) gave way, or was even broken through; but not because it was eluded as by an impalpable disguise,3688 3688 Per caliginem.
which, if there had been such, would not at all have submitted to any touch.
