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The Five Books of Quintus Sept. Flor. Tertullianus Against Marcion
The Five Books of Quintus Sept Flor Tertullianus Against Marcion Author:Tertullian Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE FIVE BOOKS QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLOKENS TERTULLIANUS AGAINST M A R C I 0 N. BOOK I. WHEREIN IS DESCRIBED THE GOD OF MARCION. HE IS SHOWN TO BE UT... more »TERLY WANTING IN ALL THE ATTRIBUTES OF THE TRUE GOD. Chap. I.—Preface; setting forth the reason for this new edition of his work; and sketching the roughness of Pontus, which gave its character to the heretic Marcion—a native, whose heresy is characterized in a brief but severe invective. jiHATEVER in times past1 we have wrought in opposition to Marcion, is from the present moment. H no longer to be accounted of.2 It is a new work which we are undertaking in lieu of the old one.:i. My original tract, as too hurriedly composed, I had subsequently superseded by a fuller treatise. This latter I lost, before it was completely published, by the fraud of a person who was then a Christian,4 but became afterwards an apostate. He, as it happened, had transcribed apportion of it, full of mistakes, and then published it. The necessity thus arose for an amended work; and the occasion of the new edition induced me to make a considerable addition to the treatise. This present text,5 therefore, of my work—which is the third as superseding0 the second, but henceforward to be con- 1 Retro. t Jam hinc viderit. 8 Ex vetere. 4 Fratris. Stilus. De. sidered the first instead of the third—renders a preface necessary to this issue of the tract itself, that no reader may be perplexed, if he should by chance fall in with the various forms of it which are scattered about. The Euxine Sea, as it is called, is self-contradictory in its nature, and deceptive in its name. As you would not account it hospitable from its situation, so is it severed from our more civilised waters by a certain stigma which attaches to its barbarous character...« less