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  • He is said to have called Marcion 'the first-born of Satan,' ([Greek: prôtotokos tou Satana]), and the same term is employed in this Epistle with regard to every one who holds such false doctrines.

    Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1858

  • Hodder looked out of the window of the sleeper to read the sign 'Marcion' against the yellow brick of the station set down in the prairie mud, and flanked by a long row of dun-colored freight cars backed up to a factory.

    The Inside of the Cup — Volume 01 Winston Churchill 1909

  • Hodder looked out of the window of the sleeper to read the sign 'Marcion' against the yellow brick of the station set down in the prairie mud, and flanked by a long row of dun-colored freight cars backed up to a factory.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • 'Marcion' against the yellow brick of the station set down in the prairie mud, and flanked by a long row of dun-colored freight cars backed up to a factory.

    The Inside of the Cup — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • If you mean things like twice excommunicating the heretic Marcion, yes, when people were preaching what the Christians didn't believe they were told in no uncertain terms that they were not part of the faith.

    Blind Faith? 2009

  • In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there took place in the professional theological faculties of Protestant Europe and eventually North America a resurgence of the heresy of Marcion, the second-century admirer of Saint Paul who wished to abandon the Old Testament entirely as incompatible in its spirit with the Gospel proclaimed by the Church.

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • Er verschopet oder vertilget, was die ketzer Elyon, Cherintus, Marcion bosslich befeltend.

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • Peter and was an old man when Valentinus and Basilides were young, along with Tertullian's suggestion that Marcion was seen as an apostle (whereas he also asserts only Paul was seen by them as an apostle) and his suggestion that the Marcionites will reject Paul (even though he also says their entire canon is based on Paul)--from this I see that the Marcionites had Paul's name as Marcion.

    The Kingdom of God James F. McGrath 2010

  • Marcion witnesses that his Jesus came down from Heaven and than returned to Heaven.

    Is There Evidence For Mythicism? James F. McGrath 2010

  • Obstruit, quod Ebion,/Cerinthus et Marcion/Perfide latravit.

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

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