1. marcionite - Noun
2. marcionite - Adjective
A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation.
Source: Webster's dictionaryDe Bruyne has made one of the finest discoveries of later days in proving that those prefaces, which we read first in Codex Fuldensis and then in numbers of later manuscripts, are Marcionite, and that the Churches had not noticed the cloven hoof." Source: Internet
Harnack noted: "We have indeed long known that Marcionite readings found their way into the ecclesiastical text of the Pauline epistles, but now for seven years we have known that Churches actually accepted the Marcionite prefaces to the Pauline epistles! Source: Internet
Some scholars suggest that it was created to offset the popularity of the Marcionite epistle. Source: Internet
The next earliest account of Luke is in the Anti- Marcionite Prologue to the Gospel of Luke, a document once thought to date to the 2nd century, but which has more recently been dated to the later 4th century. Source: Internet
The fact remains that second century Christians from many groups—Valentinian, Marcionite, Ebionite, Apostolic—claimed the self-identity of “Christian”. Source: Internet