part of the Jews. The summary conclusion of the whole section 1:18–3:20 is given in the two verses 3:19, 20: it is that the whole world, Gentile and Jew alike, stands guilty before God. Thus the way is prepared for a further statement of the means of removing that state of guilt offered in the Gospel. Marcion retained ver. 18, omitting Θεοῦ, perhaps through some accident on his own part or in the MS. which he copied (Zahn, ut sup. p. 516; the rather important cursive 47 has the same omission). The