hints that Marcion perverted the meaning of the tense to suit his purpose, ‘si sic vult intelligi adimpleta est, quasi jam non adimplenda.’ The present πληροῦται in the received text enfeebles the sense. The meaning of πληροῦν here is not to ‘sum up, comprehend,’ but ‘to perform, complete,’ as appears from the parallel passage, Rom. 13:8 ὁ ἀγαπῶν τὸν ἕτερον, νόμον πεπλήρωκεν; so that ἐν ἑνὶ λόγῳ, ‘in one maxim or precept,’ means ‘in the observance of one maxim or precept.’ ἐν τῷ]