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The critical spirit stimulated by the Reformation--The Ignatian Epistles as regarded by Calvin, Ussher, Vossius, Daillé, Pearson, Wake, and Cureton--Dr. Lightfoot as a scholar and a commentator--The valuable information supplied in his recent work--His estimate of the parties...
If, as there is every reason to believe, the Ignatian Epistles are forgeries from beginning to end, various questions arise as to the time of their appearance, and the circumsta...
8. Chapter 8To many it may appear that there can be no connection between the date of the martyrdom of Polycarp and the claims of the Ignatian Epistles. All conversant with the history of t...
7. Chapter 7The Bishop of Durham affirms, in a passage already quoted, that "no Christian writings of the second century, and very few writings of antiquity, whether Christian or pagan, are...
11. Chapter 11to this very hour. But, when I suffer, I shall be a freed-man of Jesus Christ, and shall rise free in Him. Now I am learning in my bonds to put away every desire.
9. Chapter 9The only two vouchers of the second century produced in support of the claims of the Epistles attributed to Ignatius, are the letter of Polycarp to the Philippians and a sentenc...
6. Chapter 6The question of the genuineness of the Epistles attributed to Ignatius of Antioch has continued to awaken interest ever since the period of the Reformation. That great religious...
5. Chapter 5We have no positive historical information as to the origin of the Ignatian Epistles--First saw the light in the early part of the third century--Such forgeries then common--Wha...
4. Chapter 4The testimony of Irenaeus quite misunderstood--Refers to the dying words of one of the martyrs of Lyons--The internal evidence against the genuineness of the Ignatian Epistles--...
2. Chapter 2Dr. Lightfoot makes a most unguarded statement as to the Ignatian Epistles--The letter of Polycarp better authenticated--The date assigned for the martyrdom of Ignatius--The dat...
3. Chapter 3Dr. Lightfoot's strange reasoning on this subject--The testimony of Eusebius, Jerome, and others--Eusebius and Jerome highly competent witnesses--Dr. Döllinger's estimate of Jer...
1. Chapter 1The critical spirit stimulated by the Reformation--The Ignatian Epistles as regarded by Calvin, Ussher, Vossius, Daillé, Pearson, Wake, and Cureton--Dr. Lightfoot as a scholar a...