The sources of Adversus Marcionem

1. Psalms David 17 authority · 1 neutral · 1 refuted · 1 extended 20 citations · 35 passages

   book 1 2 passages anchored here · book 2 5 passages anchored here · book 3 7 passages anchored here · book 4 13 passages anchored here · book 5 8 passages anchored here

   The psalm is explicitly introduced as having 'foresung' the events described, marking it as a cited authority.

   " For he was suggesting himself, out of the prophecy of Daniel, the Son of man, and, out of the psalm of David, the one sitting at the right hand of God.

2. Book of Isaiah Isaiah 18 authority · 1 neutral 19 citations · 53 passages

   book 1 2 passages anchored here · book 2 5 passages anchored here · book 3 6 passages anchored here · book 4 28 passages anchored here · book 5 12 passages anchored here

   Isaiah is named directly as the source of the quoted question about the Lord's mind and counsel.

   even if he pursued with hatred the most solemn day of the Jews — that Christ, not of the Jews, professing the Creator even by his hatred of the sabbath, as the Christ of him, was following him who cries out by the mouth of Isaiah, "Your new moons and your sabbaths my soul hates.

3. Genesis Moses 12 authority · 1 neutral 13 citations · 15 passages

   book 1 2 passages anchored here · book 2 4 passages anchored here · book 3 2 passages anchored here · book 4 2 passages anchored here · book 5 5 passages anchored here

   Three distinct Genesis quotations are explicitly used to ground the argument about flesh and soul.

   For among those figures and prophetic blessings of Jacob upon his sons, when he had said to Benjamin, Benjamin, he says, a ravening wolf shall feed in the morning, and at evening shall give food — for he foresaw that Paul would arise from the tribe of Benjamin, a ravening wolf feeding in the morning, that is, in his early age laying waste the flock of the Lord as a persecutor of the churches, and …

4. Jeremiah Jeremiah 9 authority 9 citations · 11 passages

   book 1 · book 3 · book 4 7 passages anchored here · book 5 2 passages anchored here

   Jeremiah is explicitly named as the source of this quoted prophecy.

   " So too through Jeremiah he published, "Let not the rich glory in his riches, and let him who glories" — namely in God — "glory.

5. the Gospel the Evangelists 7 authority · 1 refuted 8 citations · 10 passages

   book 1 2 passages anchored here · book 2 4 passages anchored here · book 3 2 passages anchored here · book 5 2 passages anchored here

   The 'gospel of truth' is invoked to identify to whom the sentence about the sins of the fathers upon the sons truly applies.

   Although, if you receive the gospel of truth, you will know to whom that sentence pertains, of Him who renders to the sons the sins of the fathers — namely to those who were of their own accord about to imprecate this sentence upon themselves:

6. Book of Amos Amos 7 authority 7 citations

   book 3 · book 4 4 passages anchored here · book 5 2 passages anchored here

   Explicitly named: 'Of which Amos says.'

   To which Christ builds his ascent into heaven, according to Amos, surely for his own, where is also the eternal place, of which Isaiah:

7. Book of Daniel Daniel 7 authority 7 citations

   book 3 2 passages anchored here · book 4 4 passages anchored here · book 5

   Daniel is named directly as source of the vision quoted.

   The same was revealed directly to Daniel himself, the Son of man coming with the clouds of heaven, a judge, as the Scripture also demonstrates.

8. First Epistle to the Corinthians Paul 5 authority · 2 extended 7 citations · 10 passages

   book 1 2 passages anchored here · book 3 2 passages anchored here · book 4 · book 5 5 passages anchored here

   The line about unity of preaching is explicitly introduced as something the apostle himself says elsewhere.

   This wisdom he says was in secret — the wisdom which was in foolish and little and base things, which lay hidden too under figures, allegories, and riddles, to be revealed afterwards in Christ, set for a light of the nations by the Creator, who promised through the voice of Isaiah that he would lay open invisible and hidden treasures.

9. Exodus Moses 5 authority · 1 neutral 6 citations · 10 passages

   book 2 · book 3 2 passages anchored here · book 4 7 passages anchored here

   Exodus supplies both the naming prophecy for Jesus and the typological battle against Amalek.

   but by which, as good, he so loves the little ones that in Egypt he did good to the midwives, who protected the Hebrew births endangered by the edict of Pharaoh.

10. Hosea Hosea 6 authority 6 citations · 7 passages

    book 1 · book 4 5 passages anchored here · book 5

    Hosea is explicitly named as the source of this quoted prophecy.

    but when to Christ he gave the nations for an inheritance and the ends of the earth for a possession, and that began to be discharged which was said through Hosea, "Not my people, my people, and she that has not obtained mercy, having obtained mercy" — namely the nation — then Christ extended toward all the law of the paternal benignity, excepting no one in commiseration, as none in vocation.

11. Zechariah Zechariah 6 authority 6 citations

    book 3 2 passages anchored here · book 4 4 passages anchored here

    Zechariah is cited once to reinforce the reading of gold as the 'strength' Christ receives.

    He commanded through Zechariah that no one should remember the malice of his brother, but not even of his neighbour.

12. Antitheses Marcion 6 refuted 6 citations · 8 passages

    book 1 · book 2 2 passages anchored here · book 4 5 passages anchored here

    The Antitheses is explicitly named and described as Marcion's principal work opposing Gospel to Law.

    although it is so easy to meet them with a preliminary objection — and indeed in such a way that I accept them, that I ratify them, that I say they work with us, so that they may the more blush for the blindness of their own author — that now the Antitheses are ours against Marcion.

13. Book of Joel Joel 5 authority 5 citations

    book 3 · book 4 · book 5 3 passages anchored here

    Joel is named directly as source of the cited prophetic statement.

    In whom you too, when you had heard the word of truth, the gospel, in whom you believed and were sealed with the holy Spirit of his promise.

14. Deuteronomy Moses 4 authority · 1 neutral 5 citations · 8 passages

    book 3 · book 4 7 passages anchored here

    Deuteronomy is named explicitly multiple times as the source of commands on wealth, lending, and pledges.

    But if the kingdom of God is in the precept, then set against it, according to our antitheses, Moses, and it is one opinion.

15. Epistle to the Galatians Paul 2 authority · 2 neutral · 1 extended 5 citations · 8 passages

    book 1 · book 3 · book 4 · book 5 5 passages anchored here

    The paragraph's argument is built directly on the narrative content of Paul's letter to the Galatians.

    For this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood shall not possess the kingdom of God — the works, namely, of flesh and blood, by which too, writing to the Galatians, he took away the kingdom of God;

16. Book of Ezekiel Ezekiel 4 authority 4 citations · 5 passages

    book 2 · book 3 2 passages anchored here · book 4 2 passages anchored here

    A lengthy quotation from Ezekiel's lament over the prince of Tyre is presented and interpreted as an allegory of the devil.

    "The Lord says to me, Pass through the midst of the gate, in the midst of Jerusalem, and set the sign Tau on the foreheads of the men.

17. Habakkuk Habakkuk 4 authority 4 citations · 5 passages

    book 4 4 passages anchored here · book 5

    Habakkuk is explicitly named as the source of the quoted pronouncement on faith.

    But also, if the goad of penitence had come by faith, through penitence justified by faith she heard from him, "Thy faith has made thee safe," who through Habakkuk had pronounced, "The just shall live by his faith.

18. Numbers Moses 4 authority 4 citations · 5 passages

    book 3 2 passages anchored here · book 4 3 passages anchored here

    Numbers provides the renaming of Joshua and the brazen serpent narrative, both used as types of Christ and the cross.

    both that in Leviticus, forbidding the priests to be present even at the last rites of parents ("Over every dead soul," it says, "the priest shall not enter, and over his own father he shall not be defiled"), and that of consecration in Numbers;

19. Law of Moses Moses 3 authority · 1 extended 4 citations · 8 passages

    book 4 2 passages anchored here · book 5 6 passages anchored here

    Directly invoked as the source of legal commands discussed in two paragraphs.

    for Moses too said, You shall circumcise your hardness of heart, that is, not the flesh.

20. Book of Micah Micah 2 authority · 1 neutral 3 citations

    book 4 3 passages anchored here

    Micah is named directly as the source of the quoted saying on pardon.

    "What god is like thee, taking away iniquities and passing over injustices to the remnant of thine inheritance?

21. Gospel of Matthew Matthew 2 authority · 1 neutral 3 citations · 4 passages

    book 4 4 passages anchored here

    The gospel of Matthew is explicitly named as an apostolic authority in both paragraphs.

    The same authority of the apostolic churches will give patronage to the other gospels too, which we likewise have through them and according to them — John's, I mean, and Matthew's — although that which Mark published is affirmed to be Peter's, whose interpreter Mark was.

22. the Law Moses 3 authority 3 citations

    book 2 3 passages anchored here

    The law's commands to love and fear God are invoked as authoritative definitions applied respectively to the obedient and the transgressor.

    So in the rest too you reproach Him with contrarieties of precepts, as fickle and unstable, forbidding work on the sabbath and commanding the ark to be carried round for eight days, that is, even on the sabbath, in the storming of the city of Jericho.

23. Book of Nahum Nahum 2 authority 2 citations

    book 4 2 passages anchored here

    Named directly as the source of the quoted saying.

    "For behold, swift feet upon the mountain of one evangelizing peace.

24. Epistle to the Colossians Paul (the apostle) 2 authority 2 citations

    book 5 2 passages anchored here

    The whole paragraph is an explicit exposition of this named epistle.

    If Christ is not the firstborn of creation, as the Word of the Creator through whom all things were made and without whom nothing was made;

50 sources are named once. Each stands in the run of its own book, below — in the order of the text.