Anf-03 v.iii.iii Pg 26
2 Tim. i. 15; ii. 17; 1 Tim. i. 20.
the betrayer of Christ was himself one of the apostles. We are surprised at seeing His churches forsaken by some men, although the things which we suffer after the example of Christ Himself, show us to be Christians. “They went out from us,” says (St. John,) “but they were not of us. If they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us.”1882 1882
Anf-03 v.v.i Pg 19
2 Tim. i. 15.
However, never mind the man, when it is his doctrine which I question. He does not appear to acknowledge any other Christ as Lord,6141 6141 Thus differing from Marcion.
though he holds Him in a different way; but by this difference in his faith he really makes Him another being,—nay, he takes from Him everything which is God, since he will not have it that He made all things of nothing. For, turning away from Christians to the philosophers, from the Church to the Academy and the Porch, he learned there from the Stoics how to place Matter (on the same level) with the Lord, just as if it too had existed ever both unborn and unmade, having no beginning at all nor end, out of which, according to him,6142 6142 The force of the subjunctive, ex qua fecerit.
the Lord afterwards created all things.
