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Introductory Note to the Epistles of Ignatius
[1162] The meaning is probably similar to that expressed in chap. xiv. of the Epistle to the Ephesians.
[1163] Literally, “I am ground.”
[1164] Literally, “with provoking, provoke.”
[1165] Literally, “they are who are.”
[1166] Literally, “by their injury.”
[1167] Literally, “and not as that which is afraid of some other men.” So Cureton translates, but remarks that the passage is evidently corrupt. The reference plainly is to the fact that the beasts sometimes refused to attack their intended victims. See the case of Blandina, as reported by Eusebius (Hist. Eccl., v. 1.).
[1168] Cureton renders interrogatively, “What is expedient for me?” and remarks that “the meaning of the Syriac appears to be, ‘I crave your indulgence to leave the knowledge of what is expedient for me to my own conscience.’ ”
[1169] Literally, “nothing.”
[1170] Literally, “and.”
[1171] The Latin version translates the Greek here, “He adds gain to me.”
[1172] Chap. viii. of the Greek is entirely omitted in the Syriac.
[1173] The following passage is not found in this Epistle in the Greek recensions, but forms, in substance, chaps. iv. and v. of the Epistle to the Trallians. Diverse views are held by critics as to its proper place, according to the degree of authority they ascribe to the Syriac version. Cureton maintains that this passage has been transferred by the forger of the Epistle to the Trallians, "to give a fiar colour to the fabrication by introducing a part of the genuine writing of Ignatius; while Hefele asserts that it is bound by the “closest connection” to the preceding chapter in the Epistle to the Trallians.
[1174] Or, as in the Greek, “Fare ye well, to the end.”
[1175] [N.B.—The aphoristic genius of Ignatius seems to be felt by his Syrian abbreviator, who reduces whole chapters to mere maxims.]
Introductory Note to the Spurious Epistles of Ignatius
[1176] [Spurious writings, if they can be traced to antiquity, are always useful. Sometimes they are evidence of facts, always of opinions, ideas and fancies of their date; and often they enable us to identify the origin of corruptions. Even interpolations prove what later partisans would be glad to find, if they could, in early writers. They bear unwilling testimony to the absence of genuine evidence in favour of their assumptions.]
Chapter I.—His own sufferings: exhortation to stedfastness.
[1179] Hab. ii. 4; Gal. iii. 11.
[1180] Ps. lxviii. 7 (after the LXX).
Chapter II.—Cautions against false doctrine.
[1181] Some omit this.
[1182] That is, as appears afterwards from chap. v., so as to have no personality distinct from the Father.
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