Marcion as 'little Mark'

With regards to my thesis look at what Irenaeus says about the followers of Marcus again:

But they adduce the following passage as the highest testimony, and, as it were, the very crown of their system:-"I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes. Even so, my Father; for so it seemed good in Thy sight. All things have been delivered to Me by My Father; and no one knoweth the Father but the Son, or the Son but the Father, and he to whom the Son will reveal Him." In these words they affirm that He clearly showed that the Father of truth, conjured into existence by them, was known to no one before His advent. And they desire to construe the passage as if teaching that the Maker and Framer [of the world] was always known by all, while the Lord spoke these words concerning the Father unknown to all, whom they now proclaim.

Put the two references together - and a third from the Clementine Literature - and you basically have my book i.e. that Mark was the "little one" to whom Jesus chose to reveal the Father.

Boid responds:

It is interesting to see how Irenaeus misses the point. What the Marcionites said is compatible with traditional Jewish exegesis and with Christianity, but Irenaeus has wrongly seen a reflection of world-denying Gnosticism and then gone on from there. I’ll follow all this up next week, as said before. I can’t afford to stop working on your book right now.