e Tertullian Against Marcion 1.2
The heretic of Pontus introduces two Gods, like the twin Symplegades of his own shipwreck: One whom it was impossible to deny, ie. our Creator; and one whom he will never be able to prove, ie. his own god. The unhappy man gained the first idea of his conceit from the simple passage of our Lord's saying, which has reference to human beings and not divine ones, wherein He disposes of those examples of a good tree and a corrupt one; how that, "the good tree brings not forth corrupt fruit, neither the corrupt tree good fruit."
... he found the Creator declaring, "I am He that creates evil" [Isaiah 45:7] ...
He had, moreover, in one Cerdon an abettor of this blasphemy — a circumstance which made them the more readily think that they saw most clearly their two gods,* blind though they were; for, in truth, they had not seen the one God with soundness of faith. To men of diseased vision even one lamp looks like many. One of his gods, therefore, whom he was obliged to acknowledge, he destroyed by defaming his attributes in the matter of evil; the other, whom he laboured so hard to devise, he constructed, laying his foundation in the principle of good. In what articles he arranged these natures, we show by our own refutations of them.
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/03121.htm (see also chapter 23)
* lol, the accusation is that they saw two gods because there were two of them
(see also Adv. Marcion III.21: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/03123.htm)
The heretic of Pontus introduces two Gods, like the twin Symplegades of his own shipwreck: One whom it was impossible to deny, ie. our Creator; and one whom he will never be able to prove, ie. his own god. The unhappy man gained the first idea of his conceit from the simple passage of our Lord's saying, which has reference to human beings and not divine ones, wherein He disposes of those examples of a good tree and a corrupt one; how that, "the good tree brings not forth corrupt fruit, neither the corrupt tree good fruit."
... he found the Creator declaring, "I am He that creates evil" [Isaiah 45:7] ...
He had, moreover, in one Cerdon an abettor of this blasphemy — a circumstance which made them the more readily think that they saw most clearly their two gods,* blind though they were; for, in truth, they had not seen the one God with soundness of faith. To men of diseased vision even one lamp looks like many. One of his gods, therefore, whom he was obliged to acknowledge, he destroyed by defaming his attributes in the matter of evil; the other, whom he laboured so hard to devise, he constructed, laying his foundation in the principle of good. In what articles he arranged these natures, we show by our own refutations of them.
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/03121.htm (see also chapter 23)
* lol, the accusation is that they saw two gods because there were two of them
(see also Adv. Marcion III.21: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/03123.htm)
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