This omission is not quite consistently carried out, as the passage vii.

24-28 is retained--probably because ver.

28 itself seemed to contain a sufficient qualification.
The genealogy, as well as viii.

19, was naturally omitted for the same reason as the Nativity.

The narrative of the Baptism Marcion could not admit, because it supplied the foundation for that very Ebionism to which his own system was diametrically opposed.