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As to these translators it should be stated that Symmachus was an
Ebionite. But the heresy of the Ebionites, as it is called,
asserts that Christ was the son of Joseph and Mary, considering him
a mere man, and insists strongly on keeping the law in a Jewish
manner, as we have seen already in this history. Commentaries of
Symmachus are still extant in which he appears to support this heresy
by attacking the Gospel of Matthew. Origen states that he obtained
these and other commentaries of Symmachus on the Scriptures from a
certain Juliana, who, he says, received the books by inheritance
from Symmachus himself.
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