1088 The scorpion here represents any class of the lowest animals, especially such as stung. The Marcionites impiously made it a reproach to the Creator, that He had formed such worthless and offensive creatures. Compare book i. chap. 17, note 5. p. 283.
1089 Luke xi. 27,28.
1090 See above, on Luke viii. 21.
1094 From the Marcionite point of view.
1095 Luke xi. 29.
1096 Luke xi. 33.
1097 Luke vi. 28, also xi. 37-52.
1103 Luke xi. 39.
1105 Matt. ix. 13, xii. 7; comp. Hos. viii. 6.
1106 Luke xi. 41.
1107 The Pharisees and lawyers.
1109 Marcion's gospel had klh=sin (vocationem, perhaps a general word for hospitality) instead of kri/sin, judgment,-a quality which M. did not allow in his god. See Epiphanius, Hoeres. xlii., Schol. 26 (Oehler and Fr. Junius).
1110 Luke xi. 42.
1111 Deut. vi. 5.
1115 Isa. i. 10.
1116 Ps. cxviii. 9.
1120 Luke xi. 46.
1122 Vocationem: Marcion's klh=sin.
1126 See Isa. v. 5, 23, and x. 2.
1127 Isa. xxviii. 14.
1128 The books point to Isa. iii. 3,4 for this; but there is only a slight similarity in the latter clause, even in the Septuagint.
1129 Legis doctores: the nomikoi/ of the Gospels.
1130 Luke xi. 47.
1132 Luke xi. 52.
1133 As Marcion held Him to be.
1137 As narrated by St. Luke xii. 1-21.
1139 Luke xii. 2.
1140 Luke xii. 4.
1141 Isa. lvii. 1.
1142 Luke xii. 5.
1144 Luke xii. 8.
1146 Luke xii. 9.
1148 Luke xii. 10.
1149 So full of blasphemy, as he is, against the Creator.
1151 Luke xii. 11, 12.
1154 Num. xxii.-xxiv.
1156 "Two men of the Hebrews."-A.V.
1157 Ex. ii. 13, 14.
1158 Luke xii. 13, 14.
1160 Excusserat. Oehler interprets the word by temptaverat.
1162 This is an instance of the title "Spirit" being applied to the divine nature of the Son. See Bp. Bull's Def. Nic. Fid. (by the translator). [See note 13, p. 375, supra.]
1163 Above, chap. xv. of this book. p. 369, supra.
1164 Comp. 1 Sam. ii. 8 with Ps. cxiii. 7 and Luke i. 52.
1165 Luke xii. 16-20.
1167 Isa. xxxix.
1168 Agere curam: take thought.-A.V.
1169 Luke xii. 22-28.
1171 Flosculo: see Luke xii. 24-27.
1174 Luke xii. 28.
1176 Luke xii. 30.