Refutation of the Sects

contradictory arguments and it is impossible for them to take their joy in a common subject 369................................ 112 130
g. Impossibility for the "Evil One" to rejoice, just as for the "Just One" to cheat 370...... 112 130
h. Hyle Hyle (from the Greek word for "matter") refers here to the personified principle of evil matter in Marcionite dualism. only responded tit for tat: the true culprit is the God of the Law 371....... 112 130
i. The God of the Law as a Master of trickery and deceit 372........................... 113 131
j. It is at Hyle and not at men that the God of the Law should have taken aim 373......... 113 131
k. What the Just One should or should not have done in this case, if he were truly just 374. 113 131
B. Refutation of Marcion’s theory of Redemption 375-404
Lemma 375................................... 113 131
a. The Good [God], to send his son, should not have waited twenty-nine generations 376.......... 113 131
b. What is their "Third Heaven"? 377-381.. 113 131
α. "HEAVEN," IN HEBREW, IS A "plurale tantum" original Latin: plurale tantum; a grammatical term for a word that only exists in the plural form (like "scissors" or "pants" in English). Eznik uses this to argue that a "third" heaven does not imply multiple literal heavens. 378... 113 132
β. OBJECTION OF THE MARCIONITES 379-381............... 114 132
α' First response: "as far as the third heaven" original Greek: ἕως τρίτου οὐρανοῦ (heōs tritou ouranou) from the text can just as well be understood as "up to a third (part) of a heaven" 380............................ 114 132
β' Second response: "as far as the third heaven" original Greek: ἕως τρίτου οὐρανοῦ (heōs tritou ouranou) can mean "up to the third layer, the highest, of the air" 381. 114 132
c. What Paul meant by saying that the words he had heard were inexpressible 382-384
Lemma 382................................... 114 133
α. WHAT PAUL DID NOT MEAN 383... 115 133
β. WHAT PAUL DID MEAN 384........... 115 133
d. How could Jesus enter the world of the God of the Law and leave it, without the God of the Law, his armies, or the guardians of Gehenna Gehenna: a term for hell or the place of punishment. having noticed 385......... 115 133
e. Docetism of such a doctrine Docetism is the belief that Christ’s body was not human or physical, but only an appearance or phantom. 386............. 115 134
f. Marcion’s Jesus, who appeals to the Law of the Just One, is, by that very Law, liable to death for his actions 387-391
α. RELIGIOUS CRIMES 387..................... 116 134
Objection of the Marcionites 388................... 116 135
Response 389................................... 116 135