805 Eph. ii. 15-16.
806 Eph. ii. 16.
807 Eph. ii. 17-20.
808 "Because, if our building as Christians rested in part upon that foundation, our God, and the God of the Jews must be the same, which Marcion denied" (Lardner).
809 Eph. ii. 20.
810 Ps. cxviii. 22.
811 Eph. iii. 8, 9.
812 The passage of St. Paul, as Tertullian expresses it, "QUae dispensatio sacramenti occulti ab aevis in Deo, qui omnia condidit." According to Marcion's alteration, the latter part runs, "Occulti ab aevis Deo, qui omnia condidit." The original is, Ti/j h9 oi0konomi/a tou= musthri/ou tou= a0pokekrumme/nou a0po\ tw=n ai0w/nwn e0n tw=| Qew=| (compare Col. iii. 3) tw=| ta\ pa/nta kti/santi. Marcion's removal of the e0n has no warrant of ms. authority; it upsets St. Paul's doctrine, as attested in other passages, and destroys the grammatical structure.
814 Eph. iii. 10.
816 Isa. xl. 13.
818 Eph. iv. 8 and Ps. lxviii. 19.
819 Ps. xlv. 3.
820 Isa. viii. 4.
822 See above, book iii. chap. xiii. and xiv. p. 332.
823 Eph. iv. 25.
824 Ps. iv. 4.
825 Eph. iv. 26.
826 Eph. iv. 26.
827 Eph. v. 11.
828 Ps. xviii. 26.
829 Deut. xxi. 21, quoted also in 1 Cor. v. 13.
830 Isa. lii. 11, quoted in 2 Cor. vi. 17.
831 Eph. v. 18.
833 Lev. x. 9.
834 Eph. v. 19.
835 Isa. v. 11, 12.
836 Eph. v. 22, 24.
837 Eph. v. 23.
838 Eph. v. 23.
839 Eph. v. 25, 28.
840 Eph. v. 29.
844 Eph. v. 31, 32.
847 Eph. v. 32.
848 Eph. vi. i.
849 Eph. vi. 2. "He did this (says Lardner) in order that the Mosaic law might not be thought to be thus established."
850 Ex. xx. 12.
851 Eph. vi. 4.
852 Ex. x. 2.
853 Eph. vi. 12.
854 An ironical allusion to Marcion's interpretation, which he has considered in a former chpater, of the title God of this world.
855 Eph. vi. 11.
856 Eph. vi. 12.
860 Spiritalia nequitiae: "wicked spirits."
862 Gen. vi. 1-4. See also Tertullian, De Idol. 9; De Habit. Mul. 2; De Cultu Femin. 10; De Vel. Virg. 7; Apolog. 22. See also Augustin, De Civit. Dei. xv. 23.
863 Ut taxaret. Of course he alludes to Marcion's absurd exposition of the 12th verse, in applying St. Paul's description of wicked spirits to the Creator.
864 Eph. vi. 19, 20.
866 Col. i. 5, 6.
867 Antoniniani Marcionis: see above in book i. chap. xix.
868 Ps. xix. 4.
869 Col. i. 15.
870 Ex. xxxiii. 20.
871 Col. i. 15. Our author's "primogenitus conditionis" is St. Paul's prwto/tokoj pa/shj kti/sewj, for the meaning of which see Bp. Ellicott, in loc.
872 John i. 3.
875 Creatoris is our author's word.
876 Col. i. 19.
880 Col. i. 20.
881 "Una ipsa" is Oehler's reading instead of universa.
883 Col. i. 21.
884 Eph. i. 23.
885 Col. i. 24.
886 Col. i. 22.
887 As if only in a metaphorical body, in which sense the Church is "His body."
888 Col. ii. 8.
889 "Dominum inferens hebetem;" with which may be compared Cicero (De Divin. ii. 50, 103): "Videsne Epicurum quem hebetem et rudem dicere solent Stoici...qui negat, quidquam deos nec alieni curare, nec sui." The otiose and inert character of the god of Epicurus is referred to by Tertullian not unfrequently; see above, in book iv. chap. xv.; Apolog. 47, and Ad Nationes, ii. 2; whilst in De Anima, 3, he characterizes the philosophy of Epicurus by a similar term: "Prout aut Platonis honor, aut Zenonis vigor, aut Aristotelis tenor, aut Epicuri stupor, aut Heracliti maeror, aut Empedoclis furor persuaserunt."
890 The Stoical dogma of the eternity of matter and its equality with God was also held by Hermogenes; see his Adv. Hermogenem, c. 4, "Materiam parem Deo infert."
891 Pliny, Nat. Hist. vii. 55, refers to the peculiar opinion of Democritus on this subject (Fr. Junius).
892 1 Cor. i. 27.
893 Isa. xxix. 14, quoted 1 Cor. i. 19; comp. Jer. viii. 9 and Job v. 12, 13.
894 Col. ii. 13.
895 Col. ii. 16, 17.
897 Col. ii. 22.
898 Recensentur: Eph. i. 10.