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PDF[These last five quotations have already been given under Irenaeus, whom Epiphanius is transcribing.]
|464D, Luke 12.9; | |composition. | Matt. 10.33.| | |181B, Luke 14.27.| |Valentians. |401A, Luke 21.34.| | |143C, Luke 24.42.| | | (v. 1.)| | |349C, Luke 24. | |Marcion. | 38,39| | 384B, John 1.1-3. | | | 148A, John 1.23. | | | |148B, John | | | 2.16,17.| | |89C, John 3.12. | |Gnostics. |274A, John 3.14 | | 59C, John 5.46. | | | | |162B, John 5.8. | 66C, John 5.17. | | | |919A, John 5.18. | | | |117D, John 6.15. | |89D, John 6.53. | |the same. |279D, John 6.70. | | | |279B, John 8.44. | |463D, John 8.40. | |Theodotus. | |148B, John 12.41. | | |153A, John 12.22. | |75C, John 14.6. | | 919C, John 14.10. | | | 921D, John 17.3. | | | | |279D, John | | | 17.11,12.| |119D, John 18.36.| |
It is impossible here not to notice the very large amount of freedom in the quotations. The exact quotations number only fifteen, the slightly variant thirty-seven, and the markedly variant forty. By far the larger portion of this last class and several instances in the second it seems most reasonable to refer to the habit of quoting from memory. This is strikingly illustrated by the passage 117 D, Where the retreat of Jesus and His disciples to Ephraim is treated as a consequence of the attempt ‘to make Him king’ (John vi. 15), though in reality it did not take place till after the raising of Lazarus and just before the Last Passover (see John xi. 54). A very remarkable case of combination is found in 36 BC, where a single quotation is made up of a cento of no less than six separate passages taken from all three Synoptic Gospels and in the most broken order. Fusions so complete as this are usually the result of unconscious acts of the mind, i.e. of memory. A curious instance of the way in which the Synoptic parallels are blended together in a compound which
