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33^ EPISTLES OF S. IGNATIUS.
made to bear all the odium of the charges justly brought against the
Epistles of the Long Recension. Like the Athenian demagogue, he
takes a lesson from knowing eel-catchers,
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Of the sixty-six heads of objection which he urges against the Ignatian
Epistles, about one half apply solely to the Long Recension;
several others are chiefly, though not entirely, occupied with it ;
and
two or three deal only with the medieval Latin correspondence.
Thus for the most part he expends his strength in slaying the slain;
for Ussher had already dealt the death-blow to these spurious and
interpolated letters. For the rest, his arguments and positions
are such
as few sane critics, even among the most determined opponents of
the Ignatian Epistles, would venture to adopt in the present day.
Who
for instance would be bold enough to maintain that the Ignatian
writings were unknown to all Christians up to a. d. 300, about which
time they were forged (p. 460 sq) or that the passages of Origen
containing the Ignatian quotations were not written by Origen, but
Le( wives, says he, honour their husbands guage and his argument alike treat them
primi epistolarum auctoris,' but his lan- in which we have them.
as their own flesh and not dare to call them as one person.
by their 07on name This writer whoever Besides all this discreditable confusion
he was (iste vero quisquis fuit scviptor) there is great unfairness in Daille's treatment
little understood how great a man he had
here. He first quotes from the
undertaken to simulate is it
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