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Let me reframe your question for people who like Marcion. Tertullian and later rescensions of Irenaeus's Adversus Haereses claim that Marcion falsified Luke. Fine. That's an argument. That's not a fact. But pretending that the gospel of Marcion was a version of Luke keeps everyone speaking about 'Lu...

I guess another way of saying it is: 1. Clement never says in QDS he is citing from Luke 2. it makes little sense to think that he is arguing from Luke without explicitly citing Luke as he is arguing up until that point from an explicit comparison or reconciliation of gospels he calls 'Mark' and 'Ma...

Ummm. Do you realize how ridiculous this sounds? 'We can't accept your position because you haven't told us what your position is ...' Isn't it possible that someone carrying out research DOESN'T ACTUALLY HAVE A 'POSITION' but rather just presents little pieces of evidence which help discount or min...

Another angle to investigate is the fact that 'marta' = lady, mistress in Aramaic (the feminine form of מר). What gospel would have made reference to an Aramaic title like that?

On this 'Alexandrian Matthew': Origen says that Basilides wrote a Gospel (HomLk 1.2). Exactly what this may have been is unknown. The passages cited below show that he made use of Matthew's Gospel. Others have seen evidence of Luke's parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Lk 16:19–31) in a fragment pr...

Some other anomalies. Apparently Clement thinks Paul wrote a gospel "for, according to the apostle, "the law was given by Moses, grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." (QDS 8)

His text of Mark was a 'harmonized' text (or conversely our canonical text was stripped of various readings 'ghettoized' in the Four).

And not surprisingly the Arabic Diatessaron and other 'harmonies' manifest the exact pattern that we see in QDS's 'other gospel': And when the multitudes heard, they were wondering at his teaching. And some of the scribes answered and said unto him, Teacher, thou hast well said. But the rest of the ...

Now we need to map the section above on the actual text to see if in fact there is evidence that Clement is citing from our 'gospel of Luke'. Chapter 27 is still about 'what appears in Matthew' - a subject which Origen, Clement's adversary, seems equally fixated on. The question is why does Matthew ...