Note 690 — Lecture XI. THE INCORPORATION OF CHRISTIAN IDEAS, AS MODIFIED BY GREEK, INTO A BODY OF DOCTRINE.
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Cf. Weingarten, Zeittafeln, p. 19, where he cites the Muratorian fragment, Origen (ap. Eus. H.E. 6. 25), and Athanasius, in the last of whom he traces the first use of the term “canon” in our sense. But we must carefully distinguish the idea of a canon and the contents of the canon. It is uncertain whence the idea of a canon of Scripture came, whether from the ecclesiastical party or from the Gnostics; and if from the latter, whether it was from Basilides, or Valentinus, or Marcion. Most likely the last. Harnack, Dogm. 215 ff.; cf. 237-240 for Marcion as the first Biblical critic.