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and learning , but no faculty of discerning , nor exactness of judgment . He often uses such things fjr reasons to refute the heretics . which art false . He was very credulous , and not very accurate . He is mistaken in many places about very considerable matters in histor \ , and gives credit too
lightly to false memoirs and uncertain reports . He had much zeal and piety , but little conduct and prudence . " Such is the character given of Ep ipbanius by Dupin , ( Eccl . Hist . Cent , iv . ) \ u \\ o nevertheless believes him to have been an eminent saint , and stoutly defends his catholic orthodoxy against the objections of Scultetus .
in the school of St . Epiphanius our Reviewer appears to liave been no mean proficient , and may therefore well be excused in speaking handsomely of his master , and in appealing to hi in upon all- occasions . But others who are nor so much in the habit of the sainted bishop of Salamis , of using such things for reasons to refute heretics wifich fire false , may perhaps be disposed to
dettiur to the account which St . Epiphanius gives of Marcion . and his followers . The fa . pt js jthat Marcion . was a . very learned Christian , of un . blemished character , who flourished at the very beginning of the second century ^ before Justin ,
and who unfortunately blended the doctrines of Christianity with the absurd opinions of the eastern philosoph y , just as the p latoniz . ing thcologues of the Alexandrine school corrupted it with that of the west , which , I hough more familiar to modern ears , is not « Aie iota more rational . This phi-
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losophizing Christian-received no gospel but that ot Luke , in which I think that he was under an error , though his opinion in this instance has been adopted by some learned modern divines , who are as firm believers and as good practical Christians as the Reviewer . Epiphanius , forsooth , accuses Marcion of corrupting and mutilating his copy of Luke ' s gospel ; b \* t Miuxion himself luaintains his copy to be genuine . Ami if he had ever heard of the preliminary chapters , which indeed does not appear , he would no doubt have rejected them as spurious additions to the genuine history . Ego meum dico verum , ( says the
honestTerUilIian . ) Marcjon siuim , Eik > Marcionis adiirmo adukevatuin , Marcioji iQeum . Quis ioter nos deter mi uabit ? &c . Ad . v . Mar . cion . L . 4 . C # 3 .
The fact then is cle . ar . The disputed chapters \ jiere wanting in the copy of Marcion , a Christian writer ot y aim peached integrity , in the beginning of the
second century , \ vho maintained l . hiit his w £ is the genuine unadulterated gospel' of JLuke , who probably had much better opportunities of information than those
who came alter him , and who could have no inducement to have rejected this narrative , had it been related b y the evangelist . What evidence then h there to rebut the testimony of Marcion ? Epiphaniu : * charges Marcion and his followers with mutilating the scriptures , and holding monstrous errors . And the orthodox church denounces them as heretics , and denies that they are eluistians . But I should like to know wluit these heretics had to say for themselves . I am rather slow to bc-
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Tke Quarterly Review and the Improved Version * 425
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1809, page 425, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1739/page/11/
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