Anf-02 vi.iv.vii.xvi Pg 16.2
Anf-03 v.iii.xxvii Pg 7
Gal. i. 6.
That they likewise (remember), what was written to the Corinthians, that they “were yet carnal,” who “required to be fed with milk,” being as yet “unable to bear strong meat;”2144 2144
Anf-03 v.iv.ii.xx Pg 8
See Gal. i. 6, 7; and ii. 4.
he himself shows that that adulteration of the gospel was not meant to transfer them to the faith of another god and christ, but rather to perpetuate the teaching of the law; because he blames them for maintaining circumcision, and observing times, and days, and months, and years, according to those Jewish ceremonies which they ought to have known were now abrogated, according to the new dispensation purposed by the Creator Himself, who of old foretold this very thing by His prophets. Thus He says by Isaiah: Old things have passed away. “Behold, I will do a new thing.”2559 2559
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.i Pg 36
Although St. Luke wrote the Acts of the Apostles, Marcion does not seem to have admitted this book into his New Testament. “It is clearly excluded from his catalogue, as given by Epiphanius. The same thing appears from the more ancient authority of Tertullian, who begins his Book v. against Marcion with showing the absurdity of his conduct in rejecting the history and acts of the apostles, and yet receiving St. Paul as the chief of the apostles, whose name is never mentioned in the Gospel with the other apostles, especially since the account given by Paul himself in Gal. i.–ii. confirms the account which we have in the Acts. But the reason why he rejected this book is (as Tertullian says) very evident, since from it we can plainly show that the God of the Christians and the God of the Jews, or the Creator, was the same being and that Christ was sent by Him, and by no other” (Lardner’s Works, Hist. of Heretics, chap. x. sec. 41).
at all events, have handed down to me this career of Paul, which you must not refuse to accept. Thence I demonstrate that from a persecutor he became “an apostle, not of men, neither by man;”5223 5223
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.ii Pg 14
Gal. i. 6, 7.
—He means) “another” as to the conduct it prescribes, not in respect of its worship; “another” as to the discipline it teaches, not in respect of its divinity; because it is the office of5248 5248 Deberet.
Christ’s gospel to call men from the law to grace, not from the Creator to another god. For nobody had induced them to apostatize from5249 5249 Moverat illos a.
the Creator, that they should seem to “be removed to another gospel,” simply when they return again to the Creator. When he adds, too, the words, “which is not another,”5250 5250
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xii Pg 44
Gal. i. 6–9.
still retains the very formula of the law: “In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established?”5782 5782
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 5
VERSE (8) - Ga 1:6
