Marcellus of Ancyra, the Logos doctrine of, 87
Marcion;
his date, 81, 116, 213 n;
confused with Cerinthus, 210, 212;
his Gospel, 6 n, 8, 186;
his Canon, 117, 227, 263, 273;
Papias' acquaintance with it, 186;
his attitude towards St Paul, 273;
his high moral character, 119;
his distinctive views, 117 sq;
not alluded to in the Ignatian Epistles, 85;
nor in Polycarp's Epistle, 101, 115, 212;
a supposed allusion considered, 106, 115 sq;
opposed by Justin Martyr, 33;
by Melito, 231;
scene of his heresy, 219, 227, 231;
the question of the Canon raised by it, 219, 225;
his views on the resurrection and judgment, 120
Maries, the four, in Papias the lexicographer, 210 sq
Mark's (St) Gospel;
the account and criticism of Papias, 8, 10, 19, 162 sq, 175 sq,
181, 205 sq;
the motive of Papias' allusion, 207;
compared by Papias with the Fourth Gospel, 165, 205 sq;
identification of Papias' St Mark, 2, 10, 20, 46, 163 sq;
evidence of the Muratorian Canon to, 189, 205 sq
Marseilles, 252
Martyrdom of Polycarp; see Polycarp, Martyrdom of
Massuet, 98 n
Matthew (St), and Papias, 143, 193
Matthew's (St) Gospel; the account in Papias, 163, 167 sq, 181; his testimony to the Hebrew original, 168, 172; its character, 170 sq; a Greek St Matthew in existence in his day, 168 sq; identical with the extant Gospel, 169 sq; relation of the Hebrew to the Greek Gospel, 170; confused with the Gospel according to the Hebrews, by Jerome, 285; perhaps by Papias, 170; motive of Papias' allusion, 208; quoted in the Epistle of Barnabas as 'Scripture,' 227
Meletius, confused with Melito, 231