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2 72 EPISTLES OF S. IGNATIUS.<br />

H. E. ii.<br />

46). At all events it is the position maintained by our Ignatian<br />

writer, whether Apollinarian or not. Against the view that he was<br />

an Apollinarian,<br />

it is<br />

urged that the Arians agreed with the Apollinarians<br />

in mutilating the humanity of Christ by denying it<br />

a human soul.<br />

This Arianism indeed was a common taunt against the ApoUinarians<br />

(e.g. Athan. c. Apoll ii. 9, Op. i. p. 755). To this Funk answers (p.<br />

376) that, though in this respect ApoUinarians and Arians were agreed,<br />

yet they approached the subject from different sides. While the Arians<br />

adopted this view to depreciate God the Logos as compared with God<br />

the Father, the ApoUinarians on the other hand (Athan. c. Apoll. ii.<br />

6, Op. I. p. 753; Greg. Naz. Ep. loi, Op. 11. pp. 89, 90; Leont.<br />

Byzant. de Sedis iv, Patrol. Graec. Lxxxvi. p. 1220) adopted<br />

it that<br />

they might guard the sinlessness of Christ, and this latter is the<br />

view distinctly put forward by our Ignatian writer {Philipp. 5 tl irapavofxov<br />

KaXets tov t^s So^s Kv/jiov, tov rfj (f>v

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