Chapter XIII—Refutation of the opinion, that Paul was the only apostle who had knowledge of the truth. 1. With regard to those (the Marcionites) who allege that Paul alone knew the truth, and that to him the mystery was manifested by revelation, let Paul himself convict them, when he says, that one and the same God wrought in Peter for the apostolate of the circum- cision, and in himself for the Gentiles.879 Peter, therefore, was an apostle of that very God whose was also Paul; and Him whom Peter preached as God among those of the circumcision, and likewise the Son of God, did Paul [declare] also among the Gentiles. For our Lord never came to save Paul alone, nor is God so limited in means, that He should have but one apostle who knew the dispensation of His Son. And again, when Paul says, “How beautiful are the feet of those bringing glad tidings of good things, and preaching the Gospel of peace,”880 he shows clearly that it was not merely one, but there were many who used to preach the truth. And again, in the Epistle to the Corinthians, when he had recounted all those who 437 had seen God881 after the resurrection, he says in continuation, “But whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed,”882 acknowledging as one and the same, the preaching of all those who saw God883 after the resurrection from the dead. 2. And again, the Lord replied to Philip, who wished to behold the Father, “Have I been so long a time with you, and yet thou hast not known Me, Philip? He that sees Me, sees also the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father? For I am in the Father, and the Father in Me; and henceforth ye know Him, and have seen Him.”884 To these men, therefore, did the Lord bear witness, that in Himself they had both known and seen the Father (and the Father is truth). To allege, then, that these men did not know the truth, is to act the part of false witnesses, and of those who have been alienated from the doctrine of Christ. For why did the Lord send the twelve apostles to the lost sheep of the house of Israel,885 if these men did not know the truth? How also did the seventy preach, unless they had themselves previously known the truth of what was preached? Or how could Peter have been in ignor- ance, to whom the Lord gave testimony, that flesh and blood had not revealed to him, but the Father, who is in heaven?886 Just, then, as “Paul [was] an apostle, not of men, neither 879 Gal. ii. 8. 880 Rom. x. 15; Isa. lii. 7. 881 All the previous editors accept the reading Deum without remark, but Harvey argues that it must be re- garded as a mistake for Dominum. He scarcely seems, however, to give sufficient weight to the quotation which immediately follows. 882 1 Cor. xv. 11. 883 See note 9, p. 436. 884 John xiv. 7, 9, 10. 885 Matt. x. 6. 886 Matt. xvi. 17. Chapter XIII—Refutation of the opinion, that Paul was the only apostle who had knowledge of the truth. 1105 Chapter XIII—Refutation of the opinion, that Paul was the only apostle who…