Friday, March 13, 2015
The Clearest Statement of the Identity of the Marcionite Jesus as Eeshu From Tertullian Adversus Marcionem
Jesus is described (Adv Marc 4.11) as "homo a deo Marcionis." The section puzzles both Holmes and Evans who struggle to make sense of it but the subject is clearly Jesus as 'physician' and how it is that Jesus can come to the leper when "a physician is more usually furnished by him to whom the sick people belong."
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dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."