47:--[Greek: ho protos anthropos ek ges choikos; ho deuteros anthropos ho Kyrios ex ouranou].

That this place was so read in the first age is certain: for so it stands in the Syriac.

These early heretics however of whom St.
John speaks, who denied that 'Jesus Christ had come in the flesh[532]' and who are known to have freely 'taken away from the words' of Scripture[533], are found to have made themselves busy here.

If (they argued) 'the second man' was indeed 'the Lord-from-Heaven,' how can it be pretended that Christ took upon Himself human flesh[534]?
And to bring out this contention of theirs more plainly, they did not hesitate to remove as superfluous the word 'man' in the second clause of the sentence.

There resulted,--'The first man [was] of the earth, earthy: [Greek: ho deuteros Kyrios ex ouranou][535].' It is thus that Marcion[536] (A.D.