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1 82 EPISTLES OF S. IGNATIUS.
that believing in His death ye may flee from this that ye
are to die
{Trail. 2).
Of the same, from the same Epistle.
But if, like 7)ien who are without God, that do is, not believe, they say
that in supposition He suffered,
when they themselves are in supposition,
I, why am I bound Why then do I also pray that I may contend with
'i
beasts In vain then do I die. I belie therefore
the Lord. Flee therefore
from evil branches which engender fruits that bear death, luhich if a
man taste he dies inwiediately {Trail. 10, 11).
Of the same, from the Epistle to the Smyrnaeans.
I praise /esus Christ God, who has thus made you wise.
For I knew
that ye were perfect in faith immovable, as if ye xvere nailed to the cross of
our Lord Jesus Christ, in flesh and in spirit,
and ye are confirmed in love
in the blood of Christ and ; it is confirmed to you that our Lord in truth
is of the race of David in the flesh, but the Son of God by the will and the
power of God, who was born in truth of the
Virgin, who was baptized of
John, in order that all righteousness might be fulfilled by Him. Truly
before Pontius Pilate and Herod the Tetrarch He was nailed for us in
the flesh, of which fruit we are, from His suffering divinely blest, in
order that He may raise a sign to eternity by His resurrection for His
saints and His believers, whether among the Jews or among the Gentiles,
in one body of His church. For all these things He suffered for our
sakes, in order that we might be saved; and truly He suffered, truly also
He raised himself {Sinyr 71. i, 2).
Brit. Mus. Add. 12157, containing the third book of this work, which consists of
42 chapters, in a Syriac version. The work is there entitled ' The writing of the holy
Mar Severus, patriarch of Antioch, against the wicked Grammaticus.' The MS
itself is described by Cureton [C. I. p. 355) and by Wright {Catalogue p. 550 sq).
Wright ascribes it to the seventh or eighth century, and this agrees substantially
with Cureton's opinion. The extracts are printed and translated by Cureton, pp.
212, 245. The quotations from Ignatius belong to the 41st chapter of the book,
which contains a collection of testimonies from the fathers. They are on fol.
200 a, b. The Greek title of the work is Kara rod 'Iwdwov tov TpaniJ.aTLKou
Tov Kaiaapim (Fabric. 1. c. p. 617). It was a reply to a book written by this John
in defence of the Council of Chalcedon and directed against Timotheus (Anastas.
Hodeg. 6, p. 102 sq, ed. Migne).
(3) Abbrev. adv. Joann. Grammatician.