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Fragment number Vinzent 91
Klostermann 77
Ancient source used Eusebius, Ecclesiastical Theology 2.19
Modern edition M. Vinzent, Markell von Ankyra: Die Fragmente (Leiden, 1997).

Why therefore? Unless we pay heed to the Spirit, and thus consider the Monad to be undivided in power, will we not be sinning? Since the Logos teaches us, “you will worship the Lord your God and you will serve him only” (Matt 4:10). He also declares the same through the Gospel according to Mark. For when a certain scribe approached him and asked, “What is the most important of the commandments,” he answered, “The first one of all is Hear O Israel, the Lord your God, the Lord is one, and love the Lord your God with your whole soul and with your whole strength. This is the first. And the second is similar to it: You will love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other greater than these.” But the scribe said to him, “Well put, teacher you speak the truth, that God is one and there is none besides him” (Mark 12:28-32). But the scribe seems to have learned the worship of God through the Law, when he praises the saying of the Savior, saying “Hear, Israel the Lord your God is one” and he shows that he believes him to have spoken well with an oath, For he says, Truly you have said that God is one and there is none other besides him.” And yet it is they who boast that they know the mysteries of the new covenant who want to invent a new, second God, who is distinct from the Father’s substance (hypostasis) and power.

Translated by Brandon Rogers under the supervision of Prof. Glen L. Thompson

Last updated: 12-6-2010

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