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266 EPISTLES OF S. IGNATIUS.
(S) The doctrinal teaching of these Ignatian Epistles affords another
evidence of date not less decisive than any of the former. There
may
logy of the St' ov in the Nicene Creed), as He refers to Didache xii. 3, where there is
interpreted the work of his predecessors ;
(t.)
The Ignatian interpolator takes a different
seems to me to be much more natural, to
the Son, seeing that the Son is the princi-
view of tlie early Roman succession pal person in the sentence. Nor does it
(see above, p. 261). Whereas the author matter that Eusebius casts Luke i.
33 (to
of the Apost. Const, (vii. 46) makes Clement
which notwithstanding toC a7ro(rT6Xou
the immediate successor of Linus, Marcellus must be referring,
for the
the Ignatian interpolator following Eusebius
gives the succession Linus, Anencletus,
words do not occur elsewhere in the N.T.)
in the teeth of Marcellus. The antagonism
Clemens. Harnack will hardly carry in the Ignatian Epistles is much more
conviction to his readers, when he suggests
plain and direct. This creed of the Apotutions
that the interpolator of the Constistolic
Constitutions seems to be closely
omitted Anencletus because he allied to the Old Creed of Jerusalem, as
did not consider Anencletus to have been appears from other clauses also, e.g. rh
consecrated by an Apostle, like his KViVixa. t6 oiyiov, tout' ^