IRENAEUS
[Marcion] (ca. 18o)
Marcion of Pontus ... increased the [Gnostic] school through his unblushing blasphemy against Him who was proclaimed as God by the law and the prophets, declaring that He was the cause of evils, desirous of war, changeable in opinion and 'the author of inconsistent statements. He says that Jesus came from the Father, who's above the Creator, to Judaea in the time of Pontius Pilate the governor, who was the procurator of Tiberius Caesar, and in the form of a man was manifested to the people who were then in Judaea. He says that he rendered null and void the prophets and the law and all the works of the Creator God, whom they call Cosmocrator. He used an expurgated edition of the Gospel of Luke, removing all the pa**ages that referred to the birth of our Lord, and. many things from his teaching in which he very plainly referred to the creator of this universe as his Father. In the same way he mutilated the Epistles of Paul, cutting out all that the Apostle said about the God who made the world, and which went to show that he was the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and also pa**ages bearing on the advent of our Lord, which that Apostle had quoted from the prophets.