r of the Epistle. At the present
day, our ancient Greek MSS., and all ancient Versions, contain the words
'at Ephesus;' yea (_sic_), even Jerome knew no copy with a different
reading. Now, only the Sinaitic and the Vatican correspond with the _old_
copies of Basil, and those of Origen and Marcion."(152)--This then is the
sum of the evidence. Proceed we to examine it somewhat in detail.

(1) And first, I take leave to point out that the learned writer is
absolutely without authority for his assertion that "Marcion _did not
find_ the words {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH YPOGEGRAMMENI~} in his copy" of S. Paul's Epistle to the
Ephesians. Tischendorf's one pretence for saying so is Tertullian's
statement that certain heretics, (Marcion he specifies by name,) had given
to S. Paul's "Epistle to the Ephesians" the unauthorized title of "Epistle
_to the Laodiceans_."(153) This, (argues Tischendorf,) Marcion could not
have done had he found {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER EPSILON WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH YPOGEGRAMMENI~} in the first verse.(154) But the proposed
inference is clearly invalid. For, with what show of reason can
Marcion,--whom Tertullian taxes with having dared "_titulum interpolare_"
in the case of S. Paul's "Epistle to the Ephesians,"--be _therefore_,
assumed to have read the first verse differently from ourselves? Rather is
the directly opposite inference suggested by the very language in which
Tertullian (who was all but the contemporary of Marcion) alludes to the
circumstance.(155)

Those, however, who would really understand the work of the heretic,
should turn from the African Father,--(who after all does but say that
Marcion and his crew feigned concerning S. Paul's Epistle to the
_Ephesians_, that it was addressed to the _Laodiceans_,)--and betake
themselves to the pages of Epiphanius, who lived about a century and a
half later. This Father had for many years made Marcion's work his special
study,(156) and has elaborately described it, as well as presented us with
copious extracts from it.(157) And the account in Epiphanius proves that
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