Another parallel discovered in 1 Corinthians chapter 8:
The received text of 1 Corinthians 8:
Quote:
|
We know that “An idol is nothing at all in the world” and that “There is no God but one.” For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live. [1 Cor 8.4 - 6]
|
Clement however apparently has a text of 1 Corinthians which does not contain 1 Corinthians 8.5 and the second half of 1 Corinthians 8.4:
Quote:
|
And “we know”—he says the truth—“that an idol is nothing in the world; but we have only one true God, of whom are all things, and one Lord Jesus. But,” he says, “through thy knowledge thy weak brother perishes, for whom Christ died; and they that wound the conscience of the weak brethren sin against Christ.” [Clement Instructor 2.1]
|
When Tertullian rejects the Marcionite interpretation of the same section he seems to make the same jump while citing the material:
Quote:
|
"We know that an idol is nothing in the world." Marcion, however, does not say that the Creator is not God; so that the apostle can hardly be thought to have ranked the Creator amongst those who are called gods, without being so; since, even if they had been gods, "to us there is but one God, the Father." [Tertullian Against Marcion 5 7 § 9 (p.683, l.1) BP1]
|
10-25-2011, 01:34 AM
