the Messiah, appearing as a teacher and as operating with divine power, must correspond to the predictions of the prophets. Then of both references it is said, "Sed de utraque titulo sic disponam; itaque specialiter dispungamus ordinem coeptum." But no one can tell how the sic here agrees with the itaque specialiter. But if we compare the passage in the third book of Marcion, we shall easily see how the discrepancy arose, since the middle clause which maintains the connexion was left out, since it certainly did not suit the contents of the treatise Adv. Judæos. In the book Adv. Marc. it reads thus: "Sed de utroque titulo sic disponam, ut quoniam ipsum quoque Marcionis evangelium discuti placint de speciebus doctrinarum et signorum, illuc differamus quasi in rem præsentem; hic autem generaliter expungamus ordinem coeptum." The interpolator satisfied himself with merely substituting for the adversative autem, which when the middle clause is left out is no longer suitable, an itaque, which yet forms no proper connexion, and instead of generaliter, perhaps led by the speciebus which happened to meet his eye, set down specialiter, in order to indicate that he only wished here to have to do with one species, namely the predicatio. In the fourteenth chapter of the treatise Adv. Judæos, taken from ch. vii. of the third book Adv. Marc. with the introduction, so that from this introduction the clauses that only suited the book against Marcion are thrown out, but what is retained by no means is as well connected as in the reference to the intermediate clauses. In the Adv. Marc. it is,-"Discat nunc hæreticus ex abundanti cum ipso licebit Judæo, rationem quoque errorum ejus, a quo ducatum mutuatus." In the Adv. Judæos,-" Discito nunc ex abundantia erroris vestri ducatum." Neither the ex abundantı, nor the ducatum is so suitable here as in the other work.

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