Monday, November 7, 2022

A Marcionite Epistolary... by Jerome?

This is an antiMarcionite blog but our enemies did direct me to a Latin translation of maybe-Marcion's New Testament.

As reminder: Marcion's enemies (like me) have ascribed to the heretic's Epistolary only Paul's better letters, absent a chapter here and there. The Vulgate associated with muh boi Jerome doesn't use that heretic's collection. The Vulgate uses a Pelagian Epistolary.

It seems that some Latinx collector merged some actual-Jerome writings with a mishmash of classic Pastorals and Hebrews... along with the Paulines ascribed - by the Vatican - to Marcion di Sinope.

So: was Jerome's intent to translate Marcion's Epistles as to discredit them among fellow Latins? Unlike Marcion (and I think Luke), Pelagius had at least taken seriously Paul's intent, translating accordingly.

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