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THE GENUINENESS. 339
The same remark applies also to the writer of the Roman Acts of
Ignatius (see below, ii. p. 377 sq), who certainly makes Ignatius utter
these words in the arena (§ 10),
and who likewise derived his information
from Irenseus as quoted by Eusebius (see § 12).
Daille''s assumption
therefore is altogether gratuitous. The interests of sound criticism
demand an emphatic protest against this practice of thrusting aside a
known fact, and postulating in its stead an imaginary something which is
beyond the reach of verification. But the passage of Irenaeus suggests
two further remarks, (i) In the first place; whatever Jerome or
others may have supposed, the language of Irengeus himself places
the saying of Ignatius at the same point of time as it is
placed
in the Epistle to the Ronrians. He does not say jSaAA-oyaevos or (SXrjOels
£ts Otjpia but KaraKpiOeU Trpos Orjpia, and this exactly represents the
position of Ignatius when he wrote the epistle. (2) Secondly; the
preceding context of the passage in Irengeus (extant only in the Latin)
indicates a knowledge of the Ignatian letter to the Romans, as the
comparison shows :
Propterea tribulatio necessaria est
his qui salvantur, at quodammodo
contriti et attetiuati et consparsi per
patientiam verbo Dei et igniti apti
sunt ad convivium regis. Quemadmodum
quidam, etc.
Trip Koi (TTavpos, 6r)pia>v re crvoracrety,
[^avarofiai, diaipecreis,^ crKopTTicrfiol
ocrreoiv, avyKOTral iitXau, aXeap-ol
oXou Tov (j(ip,aT09
. ... en epe €p)(e(T0a>crav
puvov Iva 'itjcrov X-piarov eniTiixco
(§5).
Here the three words 'contriti, attenuati, consparsi,' correspond to the
three a-KopTna-piot, a-vyKoirai, ake.crp.oi, the order however being reversed ;
and the coincidence in the mention of the fire is the more remarkable,
as Ignatius was not, Hke Polycarp, burnt to death.
Nor is this the only coincidence with the letters of Ignatius which
we find in Irenseus. Taken in conjunction with the direct quotation
which we have first considered, the references given above (p. 143)
furnish the strongest suggestion, short of absolute proof, that the other
letters, besides the Roman, were known to this father. This is the
case especially with the description of the heretics in Trail. 6 compared
with Iren. i. 27. 4 (see
11.
p. 166), and in Smyrn. 4 compared
with Iren. iii. 2. 3 (see 11. p. 298). So again the censure of the Docetics
in Iren. iv. 33. 5 ;
'
Quemadmodum enim ipsi vera se putant disputare, quando magister
Aut quemadmodum firmum quid habere possunt ab
eorum putativus fuit
we meet with iv Ttf dweiv and ev ry et- Origen's quotation of Ignatius (see
prtKivai in contiguous clauses introducing above, p. 144) ' memini aliquem sanctotwo
successive quotations.
mm dixisse^ is a close parallel.
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