Yes, a good find.Secret Alias wrote: ↑Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:46 am
I can't believe that no one has suggested this before.
κολοβοδάκτυλος means "truncated-length" (or "short-measured")
κολοβός = cut [curtailed, docked, truncated, undersized, short]
δάκτυλος = [a] measure [a finger-width; as well as a finger (or toe) per se]
οὔτε Μάρκος ὁ κολοβοδάκτυλος ἀνήγγειλαν - [nor does] Mark the cut-lengthed announce [these teachings]- is clearly identified as the equivalent of "τούτων γὰρ οὐδὲν ἐν τῷ κατὰ Μάρκον εὐαγγελίῳ γέγραπται" - [for not one of] the[se] things [are] written in the (εὐαγγελίῳ) according to Mark.The measures of Herodotus are almost all drawn either from portions of the human body, or from bodily actions easily performable. His smallest measure is the δάκτυλος , or " finger's breadth, " four of which go to the palm or hand's breadth ... https://books.google.com/books?id=tnE-A ... 22&f=false
* yeah, Refut. 7.30.1 continuesmbuckley3 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:26 pm
... Let's look at the context, 'Hippolytus', Refut.7.30.1 :
"When, therefore, Marcion, or any of his dogs, shall bay against the Demiurge, bringing forward arguments from the comparison of good and evil, they should be told that neither the apostle Paul nor 'short-measure' Mark reported these things — for none of them is written in the gospel according to Mark*."
Ἐπειδὰν οὖν Μαρκίων ἢ τῶν ἐκείνου κυνῶν τις ὑλακτῇ κατὰ τοῦ δημιουργοῦ [dēmiourgôu], τοὺς ἐκ τῆς ἀντιπαραθέσεως ἀγαθοῦ καὶ κακοῦ προφέρων λόγους, δεῖ αὐτοῖ(ς) λέγειν ὅτι τούτους οὔτε Παῦλος ὁ ἀπόστολος οὔτε Μάρκος ὁ κολοβοδάκτυλος ἀνήγγειλαν —τούτων γὰρ οὐδε<ὶς> ἐν τῷ <κατὰ> Μάρκον εὐαγγελίῳ γέγραπται
The writer seems to be making a rather laboured joke on the theme of abbreviation, playing both upon Μαρκιων as a diminutive of Μαρκος, and on Marcion's reputation as the abbreviator of a gospel. The sense is that Marcionite doctrines are an importation of Empedocles' system, which has no textual basis in the Marcionite canon, the Apostolos and the Evangelion. The gospel of Mark is juxtaposed to point up the joke.
Their source, rather, is Empedocles son of Meton from the city of Akragas. Despoiling him, Markion concealed up until the present time the fact that he purloined the structure of his entire heresy from Sicily and transferred it word for word to the Gospel accounts.
then 7.30.2
2. Come now, Markion, just as you have constructed an antithesis between good and evil, so today I will make my own antithesis, closely attending to your purloined dogmas! You say that the Demiurge of this world is evil [cf. Iren., Haer. 3.12.12]. Do you not then veil the theories of Empedocles as you instruct the church? 3. You call the God who destroys the products of the Demiurge “good.” Do you not openly proclaim to your pupils the gospel of Empedocles’s Love parading as “the good God”? ... Do you then conceal the fact that you teach the Purifications of Empedocles? 4. You truly follow Empedocles in every respect when you teach your disciples to abstain from foods so as not to eat a corpse, the remains of a soul punished by the Demiurge. Following the doctrines of Empedocles, you dissolve marriages joined by God so that the work of Love might be preserved for you one and undivided. (For marriage, according to Empedocles, divides the one and makes many, as I have shown.)