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26o EPISTLES OF S. IGNATIUS.
the warning against Jewish practices {Philipp. 14) has its closest
parallels
in the decrees of councils and synods about the middle of the
fourth century.
{j3)
The rough date which is thus suggested for this forgery
accords likewise with the names ofpersons and places which are introduced
to give colour to the fiction. The name Maris or Marinus {Mar. Ign.
I, Hero 9) becomes prominent in conciliar lists and elsewhere in the
fourth century (see below, iii. p. 137). It is worthy of notice also that
the Maris of the Ignatian letters is
represented as bishop of Neapolis on
the Zarbus, meaning thereby apparently the city of Anazarbus (see in. p.
138). But among the victims of the persecution under Diocletian, one
Marinus of Anazarbus is commemorated in the Martyrologies^ on Aug.
8. Indeed the mention of Anazarbus itself suggests
as late a date as
the fourth century, for it is
only then that this place takes any position
in ecclesiastical history. The name Eulogius again {Mar. Ign. i), like
Marinus, appears in conciliar lists at this epoch (see below, iii. p. 140).
One Eulogius became bishop of Edessa a.d. 379 (Lequien Oriens Christ.
II.
958). So likewise the name Vitalis^ {Philipp. 14) points in the same
direction. One Vitalis was bishop of Antioch early in the fourth
century, a.d. 318 or 319 ; another, a friend of ApoUinaris, was bishop of
the ApoUinarian party, apparently also at Antioch, some half-century
later (Greg. Naz. Epist. 102, Op. 11. pp. 94, 96 ; Epiphan. Haer. Ixxvii.
21, 23 sq Sozom. H. E. vi.
25; Chron. Pasch. p. 548, ed. Bonn.;
;
Labb. Cone. 11.
1014); a third, a bishop of Tyre, seceded with the other
Semiarians from Sardica (a.d. 343) and was present at the synod of
Philippopolis (Labb. Cone. 11. 710).
(y) Another valuable indication of date is found in the plagiarisms
of this Ignatian forgery from preceding writers. The most obvious of
these is the opening sentence of the Epistle to the Antiochenes ('EA.a