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202 EPISTLES OF S. IGNATIUS.
additional epistles to the Armenian translator. But, if this was so, and if (as Merx
maintains) it comprised the seven epistles as well, why should the Armenian
translator have deserted it in part of his work and have had recourse (as Merx
Curetonian '— for these seven epistles
—
supposes) to another Syriac Version the
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Moreover it is now ascertained (see above, p. 192) that the very quotations. Trail,
5, Magn. 8, 9 (in Land's Anecd. Syr. p. 32 sq), which Merx assigned to this third
version, because they did not agree with the quotations of Severus, and which convinced
him that this version must have comprised the seven epistles also {Zeitsch. f.
Wissensch. Theol. 1.
c), are taken from a work of this very Severus himself.
Thus of the three translations, which Merx supposes, the first alone remains.
Whether it originally included the spurious epistles (in addition to the seven Vossian
letters) or whether these were a later addition, may be a matter of question.
I have dealt with this theory at some length, because I wished to dispose of it once
for all and to prevent the necessity of referring to it again. The question of the Ignatian
writings is so intricate in itself that unless pains are taken to it
disengage from
artificial entanglements which critics have created, it will become hopelessly involved.
Moreover it seemed necessary to protest against the vicious principle
— which underlies
so much recent criticism— of multiplying documents to account for accidental differences
of language in quotations. [This note was written some time before the appearance
of Zahn's Ignatius v. Antiochien, in which he has discussed (p. 174 sq) the theory
of Merx to the same effect.]
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c. A.D, 545].
(i) Episi. ad Zenobium, Photii Bibliotheca 228 (p. 246).
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