[396:1] In 1847 another copy of the Syriac version of the three epistles was deposited in the British Museum, and since, Sir Henry Rawlinson is said to have obtained a third copy at Bagdad.  See “British Quarterly” for October 1855, p. 452.

[396:2] Dr Lee, late Regius Professor of Hebrew in Cambridge, Chevalier Bunsen, and other scholars of great eminence, have espoused the views of Dr Cureton.

[396:3] By Archbishop Ussher in 1644, and by Vossius in 1646.

[396:4] Such was the opinion of Ussher himself.  “Concludimus ... nullas omni ex parte sinceras esse habendas et genuinas.”  Dissertation prefixed to his edition of “Polycarp and Ignatius,” chap. 18.

[397:1] Pearson was occupied six years in the preparation of this work.  The publication of Daille, to which it was a reply, appeared in 1666.  Daille died in 1670, at the advanced age of seventy-six.  The work of Pearson did not appear until two years afterwards, or in 1672.  The year following he received the bishopric of Chester as his reward.

[397:2] “In the whole course of my inquiry respecting the Ignatian Epistles,” says Dr Cureton, “I have never met with one person who professes to have read Bishop Pearson’s celebrated book; but I was informed by one of the most learned and eminent of the present bench of bishops, that Porson, after having perused the ‘Vindiciae,’ had expressed to him his opinion that it was a ’very unsatisfactory work.’”—­Corpus Ignat., Preface, pp. 14, 15, note.  Bishop Pearson’s work is written in Latin.

[397:3] The “Three Epistles” edited by Dr Cureton contain only about the one-fourth of the matter of the seven shorter letters edited by Ussher.

[398:1] Dr Cureton has shewn that even the learned Jerome must have known very little of these letters.  “Corpus Ignat.”, Introd. p. 67.

[398:2] Euseb. iii. c. 36.

[399:1] Euseb. i. c. 13.

[399:2] “Corpus Ignatianum,” Introd. p. 71.

[399:3] Proleg. in “Cantic.  Canticorum,” and Homil. vi. in “Lucam.”

[399:4] In the Epistle to the Romans, and the Epistle to the Ephesians.

[399:5] He quotes the words—­“I am not an incorporeal demon,” from the “Doctrine of Peter;” but they are found in the shorter recension of the seven letters in the “Epistle to the Smyrnaeans,” Sec. 3.  Had this epistle been known to him, he would certainly have quoted from an apostolic father rather than from a work which he knew to be spurious.  See Origen, “Opera,” i. p. 49, note.

[400:1] “Opera,” ii. 20, 21; iii. 271.

[400:2] See Period II. sec. ii. chap. i. p. 367.  Origen, “Opera,” iv. 473.

[400:3] Ibid. p. 368.

[400:4] “Opera,” i. 79; iv. 683.

[400:5] “Contra Haereses,” lib. v. c. 28, Sec. 4.  “Quidam de nostris dixit, propter martyrium in Deum adjudicatus ad bestias:  Quoniam frumentum sum Christi, et per dentes bestiarum molor, ut mundus panis Dei inveniar.”