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| A Sort of Sorites, as the Logicians Call It, to Show that the Parables of the Lost Sheep and the Lost Drachma Have No Suitable Application to the Christ of Marcion.
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Chapter
XXXII.—A Sort of Sorites, as the Logicians Call It, to Show that
the Parables of the Lost Sheep and the Lost Drachma Have No Suitable
Application to the Christ of Marcion.
Who sought after the lost sheep and the lost piece
of silver?4767
Was it not the
loser? But who was the loser? Was it not he who once possessed4768
them? Who, then, was that? Was it not he to
whom they belonged?4769
| 4769 Cujus fuit: i.e., each
of the things respectively. | Since, then,
man is the property of none other than the Creator, He possessed
Him who owned him; He lost him who once possessed him; He sought him
who lost him; He found him who sought him; He rejoiced who found him.
Therefore the purport4770
of neither parable
has anything whatever to do with him4771
to whom
belongs neither the sheep nor the piece of silver, that is to say,
man. For he lost him not, because he possessed him not;
and he sought him not, because he lost him not; and he found him not,
because he sought him not; and he rejoiced not, because he found him
not. Therefore, to rejoice over the sinner’s
repentance—that is, at the recovery of lost man—is the
attribute of Him who long ago professed that He would rather that the
sinner should repent and not die.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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