It is certain that Marcion made a large excision before Rom.xi.33, and another after Rom.

viii.
11; he also cut out the 'mentiones Abrahae' from Gal.iii.7, 14, 16-18 [Endnote 218:1].

I say nothing about his excision of the last two chapters of the Epistle to the Romans, because on that point a controversy might be raised.

But the genuineness of these other passages is undisputed and indisputable.

It cannot be argued here that our text of the Epistle has suffered from later interpolation, and therefore, I repeat, it is so much the more probable that Marcion took from the text of the Gospel than that a later editor added to it.
(2.) In examining the internal evidence from the nature and structure of Marcion's Gospel, it has hitherto been the custom to lay most stress upon its dogmatic character.