have a variation similar to that of Marcion, ut sit etc.; a inserts hoc.
Next follows the healing of the paralytic, which was done in fulfilment of Is.xxxv.2.The miracle also itself in its details was a special and exact fulfilment of the prophecy contained in the next verse, Is.xxxv.3.That the Messiah should forgive sins had been repeatedly prophesied, e.g.in Is.liii.12, i.

18, Micah vii.18.Not only were these prophecies thus actually sanctioned by Christ, but, in forgiving the sins of the paralytic, He was only doing what the Creator or Demiurge had done before Him.

In proof of this Tertullian appeals to the examples of the Ninevites, of David and Nathan, of Ahab, of Jonathan the son of Saul, and of the chosen people themselves.

Thus Marcion was doubly refuted, because the prerogative of forgiveness was asserted of the Messiah in the prophecies which he rejected and attributed to the Creator whom he denied.

In like manner, when Jesus called Himself the 'Son of Man,' He did so in a real sense, signifying that He was really born of a virgin.