A curious marcionite antithesis found just in Matthew

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Giuseppe
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A curious marcionite antithesis found just in Matthew

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So the words of the creator (demiurge):

Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will.

And here the words of the Christ of the Good God (not the demiurge), found paradoxically in GMatthew:

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

(Matthew 6:26)

The Marcionite “antithesis” is evident.
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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Re: A curious marcionite antithesis found just in Matthew

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Not surprisingly I would interpret the words differently. It shows that Christianity developed from the Pentateuch.
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
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