Marcionites
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2 expressionsThe Marcionites4 mentions
Adversus Marcionem (Latin) · De idolatria (Latin)
the half-baked and as it were abortive Marcionites, whom the apostle John pronounced antichrists, denying that Christ came in the flesh — yet not so as to establish the right of another god, for on that score too they would have been censured, but because they had presumed it incredible that God should be flesh.
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
The followers of Marcion, addressed and quoted throughout as the immediate opponents in the debate.
First, with a lifted eyebrow the Marcionites build up their amazement, that they bring forward a new god, as though we were ashamed of an old one.
His disciples will not deny that his first faith was with us, his own letters being witnesses, so that from this point on he can be marked out as a heretic — one who, abandoning what was first, afterwards chose for himself what previously was not.
When at this stage we expel God — He for whom no condition so proper and worthy of God has marked the way as the witness of being Creator — the most impudent Marcionites, wrinkling their noses, turn to the demolition of the Creator's works.
Stromata
Followers of Marcion who abstain from marriage out of opposition to the Demiurge.
Now if Plato himself and the Pythagoreans, like the followers of Marcion later, had supposed generation to be evil (though Plato was far from holding women to be common), still the Marcionites suppose nature to be evil, made of evil matter and by a just Demiurge.
As for the philosophers we mentioned, from whom the Marcionites, having impiously learned that generation is evil, give themselves airs as over their own doctrine—they do not hold it to be evil by nature, but evil to the soul that has perceived the truth;
" And, to put it briefly, he gave Marcion no occasion to reckon matter evil, since he himself spoke reverently about the world as follows:
De idolatria
A heretical Christian sect associated with the view that the God of the law is inconsistent or mutable.
Otherwise, if we interpret these things as adversaries of the law, do we not also—what even the Marcionites do—ascribe inconstancy to the Almighty, whom they in this manner destroy as mutable, since in one place he forbids, in another commands?
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum
Followers of Marcion, treated as a distinct heretical sect.
The same was permitted to the Valentinians as to Valentinus, the same to the Marcionites as to Marcion — to innovate the faith out of their own judgment.
Liberating truth was waiting for some Marcionites and Valentinians.
Scorpiace
Followers of Marcion, mentioned as already conceding (from Tertullian's other arguments) that God is good.
It would be a long matter to show that my God is good, which the Marcionites have already learned from us.