Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Anti-Marcion/The Five Books Against Marcion/Book IV/I

Book

IV.

In Which Tertullian Pursues His

Argument. Jesus is the Christ of the Creator. He Derives His Proofs

from St. Luke’s Gospel; That Being the Only Historical Portion of

the New Testament Partially Accepted by Marcion. This Book May Also Be

Regarded as a Commentary on St. Luke. It Gives Remarkable Proof of

Tertullian’s Grasp of Scripture, and Proves that “The Old

Testament is Not Contrary to the New.”  It Also Abounds in

Striking Expositions of Scriptural Passages, Embracing Profound Views

of Revelation, in Connection with the Nature of Man.

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Chapter I.—Examination of the

Antitheses of Marcion, Bringing Them to the Test of Marcion’s Own

Gospel. Certain True Antitheses in the Dispensations of the Old and the

New Testaments. These Variations Quite Compatible with One and the Same

God, Who Ordered Them.

opinion and the

whole scheme of the impious and

sacrilegious Marcion we now bring to the test of

that very Gospel which, by his process of interpolation, he has made

his own. To encourage a belief of this Gospel he has

actually devised for it a

sort of dower, in a work composed

of contrary statements set in opposition, thence entitled

Antitheses, and compiled with a view to such a severance of the