Saturday, September 19, 2009

Some Other Notes

You can glean from Tertullian's Against Marcion that the Marcionites DID NOT believe Jesus was the Son.

The Gospel of John is always the text thrown against the Monarchists to prove that Jesus was not the Father. Yet it was written by Polycarp with a very clear anti-Markan agenda (see 1 John too).

I bet my life all those who rejected the Johannine corpus were Monarchians ...

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