This post is inspired from this
post, where the principal argument (see the title) is slightly different.
Evidence in Tertullian that the two crucified thieves (Moses and Elijiah) are sharing indirectly the same glory of the crucified(=transfigured) Jesus:
Now, even if their presence was necessary, they surely should not be represented as conversing together, which is a sign of familiarity; nor as associated in glory with him, for this indicates respect and graciousness; but they should be shown in some slough as a sure token of their ruin, or even in that darkness of the Creator which Christ was sent to disperse, far removed from the glory of Him who was about to sever their words and writings from His gospel. This, then, is the way how he demonstrates them to be aliens, even by keeping them in his own company! This is how he shows they ought to be relinquished: he associates them with himself instead! This is how he destroys them: he irradiates them with his glory! How would their own Christ act? I suppose He would have imitated the frowardness (of heresy), and revealed them just as Marcion's Christ was bound to do, or at least as having with Him any others rather than His own prophets! But what could so well befit the Creator's Christ, as to manifest Him in the company of His own foreannouncers? — to let Him be seen with those to whom He had appeared in revelations?— to let Him be speaking with those who had spoken of Him?— to share His glory with those by whom He used to be called the Lord of glory; even with those chief servants of His, one of whom was once the moulder of His people, the other afterwards the reformer thereof; one the initiator of the Old Testament, the other the consummator of the New? Well therefore does Peter, when recognizing the companions of his Christ in their indissoluble connection with Him, suggest an expedient: It is good for us to be here (good: that evidently means to be where Moses and Elias are)
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/03124.htm
Are Moses and Elijiah the same "rulers of this age"? They are against the Son of the Good God,
they crucify him,
and without realize it, they are
sharing the his same Glory. Since they are doing precisely what the Good God had planned in advance for them: to help to their same destruction, by crucifying Jesus. The plastic image of this is to see the two thieves
in the same time as:
- Killers of Jesus (they insult him)
- Victims with Jesus (they are crucified, too)
Insofar they insult Jesus, they are condemned also.
Insofar they are crucified with Jesus, they are
already sharing (doing experience of) the Glorious Cosmic Celestial Crucifixion/Ascension/Resurrection of Jesus.
Since they allegorize Moses and Elijiah and since Moses and Elijiah are mere servants of the Creator,
then it is the Creator itself to crucify the Son of the Good God.
This betrayes strongly the
marcionite nature of Mark.