[99:1] On the Canon, Preface, 4th ed. p xxv.

[100:1] Ruinart, Acta Mart. p. 137 ff.; cf.  Baronius, Mart.  Rom. 1631, p. 152.

[100:2] Cf.  Lardner, Credibility, &c., Works, iii. p. 3.

[101:1] Contemporary Review, February 1875, p. 349 [ibid. p. 75].

[101:2] Ibid. p. 350 [ibid. p. 76].

[102:1] There are grave reasons for considering it altogether inauthentic.  Cf.  Cotterill, Peregrinus Proteus, 1879.

[102:2] De Morte Peregr. 11.

[102:3] Ibid. 14.

[102:4] Gesch. chr.  Kirche, i. p. 410 f.

[103:1] See, for instance, Denzinger, Ueber die Aechtheit d. bish.  Textes d.  Ignat.  Briefe, 1849, p. 87 ff.; Zahn, Ignatius v.  Ant., 1873, p. 517 ff.

[103:2] Contemporary Review, February 1875, p. 350 f. [ibid. p. 77].

[104:1] S.R. i. p. 268, note 4.

[105:1] Dean Milman says:  “Trajan, indeed, is absolved, at least by the almost general voice of antiquity, from the crime of persecuting the Christians.”  In a note he adds:  “Excepting of Ignatius, probably of Simeon of Jerusalem, there is no authentic martyrdom in the reign of Trajan.”—­Hist. of Christianity, 1867, ii. p. 103.

[106:1] K.G. 1842, i. p. 171.

[106:2] Ibid. i. p. 172, Anm.

[108:1] Hist. of Christianity, ii. p. 101 f.

[109:1] P. 276 (ed.  Bonn). Contemporary Review, February 1875, p. 352 [ibid. p. 79].

[109:2] Ibid. p. 353 f. [ibid. p. 80].

[109:3] Ibid. p. 352 [ibid. p. 79 f.].

[110:1] Contemporary Review, February 1875, p. 353 f. [ibid. p. 81].

[110:2] Ignatius v.  Ant. p. 66, Anm. 3.

[111:1] I need not refer to the statement of Nicephorus that these relics were first brought from Rome to Constantinople and afterwards translated to Antioch.

[112:1] Ruinart, Acta Mart. pp. 59, 69.

[112:2] Ignatius v.  Ant. p, 68.

[112:3] Ruinart, Acta Mart. p. 56.  Baronius makes the anniversary of the martyrdom 1st February, and that of the translation 17th December. (Mart.  Rom. pp. 87, 766 ff.)

[112:4] Ignatius v.  Ant. p. 27, p. 68, Anm. 2.

[112:5] There is no sufficient evidence for the statement that, in Chrysostom’s time, the day dedicated to Ignatius was in June.  The mere allusion, in a Homily delivered in honour of Ignatius, that “recently” the feast of St. Pelagia (in the Latin Calendar 9th June) had been celebrated, by no means justifies such a conclusion, and there is nothing else to establish it.

[114:1] St. Paul’s Ep. to the Philippians, 3rd ed. 1873, p. 232, note.  Cf. Contemporary Review, February 1875, p. 358 f. (Ibid. p. 88)