[401:1] Thus he speaks of “Saturninus, who was from Antioch.”  “Contra Haereses,” lib. i. c. 24, Sec. 1.

[401:2] It seems to have been soon translated into Syriac.  See Bunsen’s “Hippolytus,” iv.  Preface, p. 8.

[401:3] See large extracts from this letter in Euseb. v. c. i.  Also Routh’s “Reliquiae,” i. 329.

[402:1] Irenaeus, “Contra Haereses,” lib. iii. c. 2, Sec. 1, 2.

[402:2] Lib. iii. c. 3, Sec. 3.

[402:3] Lib. iii. c. iii.  Sec. 4.

[402:4] Lib. v. c. xxxiii.  Sec. 3, 4.

[402:5] Lib. iv. c. vi.  Sec. 2.

[402:6] In his “Vindiciae,” (Pars. i. cap. 6,) Pearson attempts to parry this argument by urging that Irenaeus does not mention other writers, such as Barnabas, Quadratus, Aristidus, Athenagoras, and Theophilus.  But the reply is obvious—­1.  These writers were occupied chiefly in defending Christianity against the attacks of paganism, so that testimonies against heresy could not be expected in their works. 2.  None of them were so early as Ignatius, so that their testimony, even could it have been obtained, would have been of less value.  Some of them, such as Theophilus, were the contemporaries of Irenaeus. 3.  None of them held such an important position in the Church as Ignatius.

[403:1] He was martyred A.D. 167, at the age of eighty-six.  According to the Acts of his Martyrdom, Ignatius was martyred sixty years before, or A.D. 107.  Polycarp must, therefore, have been now about twenty-six.  See more particularly Period II. sec. ii. chap. v. note.

[403:2] Sec. 4.

[403:3] Secs. 5, 6.

[403:4] Sec. 11.

[403:5] Sec. 3.

[404:1] [Greek:  ou monon en tois makariois Ignatio, kai Zosimo, kai Roupho, alla kai en allois tois ex humon].—­Sec. 9.

[404:2] See Baronius, “Annal. ad Annum.” 109, tom. ii. c. 48, and Jacobson’s “Pat.  Apost.” ii. 482, note 6.  Edit.  Oxon., 1838.

[405:1] Epist. xxxiv. p. 109.

[405:2] “Scripsistis mihi, et vos et Ignatius, ut si quis vadit ad Syriam, deferat literas meas quas fecero ad vos.”  The Greek of Eusebius is somewhat different, but may express the same sense.  See Euseb. iii. 36.  There is an important variation even in the readings of Eusebius.  See Cotelerius, vol. ii. p. 191, note 3.

[405:3] Thus Bunsen, in his “Ignatius von Antiochen und seine Zeit,” says—­“At the present stand-point of the criticism of Ignatius, this passage can only be a witness against itself.”  And, again—­“The forger of Ignatius has interpolated this passage.”  And, again—­“The connexion is entirely broken by that interpolation.” (Pp. 108, 109.) Viewed as a postscript, it is not remarkable that the transition should be somewhat abrupt.

[405:4] “Et de ipso Ignatio, et de his qui cum eo sunt, quod certius agnoveritis, significate.”

[406:1] See the “Acts of his Martyrdom,” Sec. 10, 12.

[406:2] See this “Epistle,” Sec. 1, 9.