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Introductory Note to the Epistles of Ignatius
[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.
[1183] The translation is here somewhat doubtful.
Chapter III.—The true doctrine respecting Christ.
[1188] Acts xxvi. 23 (somewhat inaccurately rendered in English version).
Chapter V.—Refutation of the previously mentioned errors.
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