Marcion is believed to have imposed a severe morality on his followers, some of whom suffered in the persecutions.

The Prologues to the Pauline Epistles ( which are not a part of the text, but short introductory sentences as one might find in modern study Bibles ), found in several older Latin codices, are now widely believed to have been written by Marcion or one of his followers.

Elsewhere Origen classes the Ophites as heretics of the graver sort with the followers of Marcion, Valentinus, Basilides, and Apelles ( Commentary on Matthew 3: 852 ).

* Hamartigenia -- (" The Origin of Sin ") attacks the Gnostic dualism of Marcion and his followers.

He also refers to the law as the ' instructor ' or ' tutor ' of the Jewish people, and as the beginning of God's work of turning people back to Himself, rather than as something opposed to God this being opposed to the works of Marcion who stated that the God of the Old Testament and law was the devil or demiurge.

He also wrote refutations against Bardaisan, Mani, Marcion and others.

In his work against Marcion, which he calls his third composition on the Marcionite heresy, he gives its date as the fifteenth year of the reign of Severus ( Adv.

The five books against Marcion, written 207 or 208, are the most comprehensive and elaborate of his polemical works, invaluable for gauging the early Christian view of Gnosticism.

* 3 Carmen adversus Marcionem ( Poem against Marcion )

Marcion is said to have gathered scriptures from Jewish tradition, and juxtaposed these against the sayings and teachings of Jesus in a work entitled the Antithesis.

Tertullian disputed this in his treatise against Marcion, as did Henry Wace:

Eusebius, however, speaks of the zeal which he and the other chief shepherds displayed in driving away the heretics who were attacking Christ's flock, with special mention of his work against Marcion.

# against that of Marcion ;

Several passages in the works of Irenaeus show an undoubted relationship to passages in one small section of the Apologia, but Harnack thinks it probable that the quotations, limited to two chapters, are not taken from the Apologia, but from Theophilus's work against Marcion In the West there are a few references to the Autolycus.

Saint Hegesippus ( Ἅγιος Ἡγήσιππος ) ( c. 110 — c. April 7, 180 AD ), was a Christian chronicler of the early Church who may have been a Jewish convert and certainly wrote against heresies of the Gnostics and of Marcion.

He is clearly quoting a writer who was at Rome in the time of Anicetus and made a list of popes A list which has some curious agreements with Epiphanius in that it extends only to Anicetus, is found in the poem of Pseudo-Tertullian against Marcion ; apparently Epiphanius has mistaken Marcion for " Marcellina ".

It is not against Marcion but against Plato that Pseudo-Clement teaches the supremacy of the Creator of all.

Among his other publications are: A Dialogue between a Christian and a Jew ( 1888 ); a translation ( with introduction and notes ) of Eusebius's Church History ( 1890 ); and The Apostle's Creed ( 1902 ), in which he attempted to prove that the old Roman creed was formulated as a protest against the dualism of Marcion and his denial of the reality of Jesus's life on earth.

He also wrote against Mani, Marcion, Bar Daisan, the Messalians and the general loss of discipline since Beth Lapat.

So many Catholic Christian apologists wrote treatises against Marcion after his death, in addition to the noted work of Tertullian, that it has been possible to reconstruct almost the whole of Marcion's Gospel of the Lord from their quotations.

Bardaisan showed great literary activity against Marcion and Valentinus, the Gnostics of the day.

* Dialogues against Marcion and Valentinus.

Marcion did not claim that the Jewish Scriptures were false.

This reformation was to deliver Christendom from false Jewish doctrines by restoring the Pauline conception of the gospel, Paul being, according to Marcion, the only apostle who had rightly understood the new message of salvation as delivered by Christ.

The question is indeed curious whether Marcion knew these three letters and rejected them as Tertullian says, since in 1 Timothy 6: 20 " false opposing arguments " are referred to, with the word for " opposing arguments " being " antithesis ", the name of Marcion's work, and so whether it is a subtle hint of Marcion's heresy.

Justin may have preferred the designation " memoirs of the apostles " as a contrast to the " gospel " of his contemporary Marcion to emphasize the connections between the historical testimony of the gospels and the Old Testament prophecies which Marcion rejected.

According to Marcion, the title God was given to the Demiurge, who was to be sharply distinguished from the higher Good God.

The lack of any internal references to Ephesus in the early manuscripts led Marcion, a second-century heretical Gnostic who created the first New Testament canon, to believe that the letter was actually addressed to the church at Laodicea.

The early believer considered heretic Marcion believed that Paul was the only apostle who truly understood Jesus's message.

The work is reflected in the Didache, the Gnostic writings of Basilides and Valentinus, the apologetics of the Church Father Justin Martyr, and was used by Marcion.

Christian scholar Donald Guthrie claims that the Gospel was likely widely known before the end of the 1st century, and was fully recognized by the early part of the second, while Helmut Koester states that aside from Marcion, " there is no certain evidence for its usage ," prior to ca.

In the middle of the 2nd century, an edited version of the Gospel of Luke was the only gospel accepted by Marcion, a heretic who rejected Christianity's connection to Jewish scripture.

Thus Irenaeus provides the earliest witness to the assertion of the four canonical Gospels, possibly in reaction to Marcion's edited version of the Gospel of Luke, which Marcion asserted was the one and only true gospel.

One of the earliest attempts at solidifying a canon was made by Marcion, circa 140 AD, who accepted only a modified version of Luke ( the Gospel of Marcion ) and ten of Paul's letters, while rejecting the Old Testament entirely.

Irenaeus, who had heard him preach in his youth, said of him: " a man who was of much greater weight, and a more steadfast witness of truth, than Valentinus, and Marcion, and the rest of the heretics ".

He was never so happy as when he had opponents like Marcion and Praxeas, and, however abstract the ideas may be which he treated, he was always moved by practical considerations to make his case clear and irresistible.

According to most interpretations of Matthew 5: 17, 18, 19, and 20, and most Christian views of the Old Covenant, these new interpretations of the Law and Prophets are not opposed to the Old Testament, which was the position of Marcion, but form Jesus ' new teachings which bring about salvation, and hence must be adhered to, as emphasized in Matthew 7: 24-27 towards the end of the sermon.

Cerdo, another Gnostic and predecessor of Marcion, also lived at Rome in the reign of Hyginus ; by confessing his errors and recanting he succeeded in obtaining readmission into the bosom of the Church, but eventually he fell back into the heresies and was expelled from the Church.

Antithesis was the name given by Marcion to a document in which he contrasted the Old Testament with the New Testament.

It was assumed that this 4th century opinion represented the Christianity of the Twelve Apostles ; Paulinism was originally a heresy, and a schism from the Jewish Christianity of James and Peter and the rest ; Marcion was a leader of the Pauline sect in its survival in the 2nd century, using only the Pauline Gospel, St. Luke ( in its original form ), and the Epistles of St. Paul ( without the Pastoral Epistles ).

In 1845 he became a follower of the Tübingen school, and in his work Das Evangelium Marcions und das kanonische Evangelium des Lukas, published in 1846 and in which he argued that the Gospel of Luke was based on the apocryphal Gospel of Marcion, he appears as a disciple of the Hegelian new testament scholarFerdinand Baur.

Marcion of Sinope ( Greek: Μαρκίων Σινώπης ), ( c. 85 – c. 160 ) was a bishop in early Christianity.

Hippolytus records that Marcion was the son of the bishop of Sinope, in Pontus.

Marcion probably was consecrated a bishop, likely an assistant or suffragan of his father at Sinope.

In 394, Epiphanius claimed that after beginnings as an ascetic, Marcion seduced a virgin and was accordingly excommunicated by his father, prompting him to leave his home town.