and I will give you rest, and learn of Me,”270 He announced the Father of truth. For what
they knew not, these men say that He promised to teach them.
3. But they adduce the following passage as the highest testimony,271 and, as it were,
the very crown of their system:—“I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because
Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes.
Even so, my Father; for so it seemed good in Thy sight. All things have been delivered to
Me by My Father; and no one knoweth the Father but the Son, or the Son but the Father,
and he to whom the Son will reveal Him.”272 In these words they affirm that He clearly
showed that the Father of truth, conjured into existence by them, was known to no one before
His advent. And they desire to construe the passage as if teaching that the Maker and Framer
[of the world] was always known by all, while the Lord spoke these words concerning the
Father unknown to all, whom they now proclaim.
270 Matt. xi. 28.
271 The translator evidently read τῶν for τήν, in which case the rendering will be “proof of those most high,”
but the Greek text seems preferable.
272 Matt. xi. 25–27.
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Chapter XX.—The apocryphal and spurious Scriptures of the Marcosians, with…