Anti-Marcionite prologues

The anti-Marcionite prologues are three short prefaces to the gospels of Mark, Luke and John.

[2][3] Neither are those to Mark and Luke usually regarded as directed against Marcionism, although F. F. Bruce detected anti-Marcionite tendencies in the Lukan prologue.

If they are based in part on the writings of Irenaeus and Hippolytus of Rome, they must be no earlier than the 3rd century.

[4] R. G. Heard printed the Latin text of the prologues to Mark and John and the Greek of that to Luke with English translations of each.

There is also a Coptic inscription at Asyut dating to the 6th or 7th century that appears to be based on the Lukan prologue: "As for Luke the physician, he was a disciple of the apostles.