Tertullian

“ This fact I have not refrained from mentioning on this account, because it behoved Marcion’s Christ to have forborne all connection whatever with the domestic localities of the Creator’s Christ, when he had so many towns in Judæa which had not been by the prophets thus assigned [6] to the Creator’s Christ. But Christ will be (the Christ) of the prophets, wheresoever He is found in accordance with the prophets. And yet even at Nazareth He is not remarked as having preached anything new, [7] whilst in another verse He is said to have been rejected [8] by reason of a simple proverb. ”

“ Or else did he [26] reprove them, because they were making him an object of fear, when all the while he did not want to be feared? And in what manner did he wish them to go forth, when they could not do so except with fear? So that he fell into the dilemma [27] of having to conduct himself contrary to his nature, whereas he might in his simple goodness have at once treated them with leniency. ”

“ Footnotes ↑ Habebat.↑ Ipso nomine, or by His very name.↑ Nazaræos; or, Nazarites. [Christians were still so called by the Jews in the Third Century. Kaye, 446.] ↑ Lam. iv. 7.↑ Descendit apud, see Luke iv. 16–30.↑ Emancipata.↑ Luke iv. 23.↑ Luke iv. 29.↑ Luke iv. 24.↑ A rebuke of Marcion’s Docetic views of Christ.↑ Scilicet.↑ Per caliginem.↑ “For nothing can touch and be touched but a bodily substance.” ”