But I am not sure that the existing canon of Pauline writings approximates what the Marcionite canon said Paul said. More importantly, as we have seen in other threads Eznik says that Jesus carried away Paul (cf 1 Cor 12:3) and sets the carrying away close to the Passion. Clement of Alexandria seems to do the same thing with respect to the calling of Paul. And then there is the question raised by Adamantius (or the judge I forget which) in De Recta in Deum Fide which asks the Marcionite whether Paul was witness at the Passion narrative (Megethius does not answer the question). And finally the statement in Eznik again says:
This is a very strange passage not just because 'he' is used throughout the passage with Jesus and 'the Jewish god' (making the identification of 'he' quite difficult at times to figure out) but more so with respect to the status of 'those led away.'and if, as they say, for this Law of the Just One Jesus was solicited judge and mediator since he was found worthy of death many times over by those laws because prior to his crucifixion he had carried many off. And not only himself but he also chose many others from among those same ones and he sent them off to teach and draw unto him. And not only that much but also he clothed their might to trample underfoot the army of their Lord and threw sword and division into his house and kindled a fire in his creatures to the point of curtailing and obstructing this Law of his from the days of John the Baptist. And to announce his own kingdom many preachers were unleashed to preach and many reapers to reap what he himself had not sown.
And before anyone had sinned against him or put him on the cross or shed his blood he took his house as booty and he displaced his kingship and he was remaining silent and he was not sinning. And how will they say that by his crucifixion he purchased mankind? Because look here! before he had yet ascended the cross that assemblage of many he had snatched to himself. (p. 196)
Are the apostles included among 'those led away' or purchased from the Jewish god? I don't think so. He specifically means that those 'cured' in the gospel narratives. So the Marcionites introduce a new scenario were a series of individuals - not the Twelve - are drawn away from Judaism, 'purchased' out of slavery if you will, who teach and in turn draw others away from the Law. All of those individuals are deemed worthy of death according to the Law.
How is Paul not included as ranking among this list of 'carried off' individuals in the gospel narrative (i.e. before the Passion narrative) other than the fact that our tradition forbids that possibility? But it also goes out of its way to make the most important aspect of the Marcionite Paul impossible for us - viz. Paul as original evangelist.