apostolicfathers0201clem - Carmel Apologetics

THE GENUINENESS. 413
therefore is altogether in favour of its existence in the age of Ignatius'.
Where the remains of contemporary literature are so few and fragmentary,
intervals far longer than half a century constantly occur
between the producible instances of the use of particular words. One
example will suffice. The Ignatian letter to the Ephesians on any
showing was written before the middle of the third century when it is
quoted by Origen. Yet the next example, after this Ignatian letter, of
the use of the word dvaywyev in the same sense as 'a liftitig-engine''
{Ephes. 9), which the lexicographers produce, is in Eustathius (see 11.
p. 54), a writer of the twelfth century.
Another alleged anachronism is the expression
'
Catholic Church '
as used in Smyri. 8.
'Let no one,' writes our author, 'do anything that
pertaineth to the Church without the bishop... Wherever the bishop
appeareth, there let the people (to ttX^Bos) be ;
just as where Jesus Christ
is, there is the Catholic Church ' (uxnrep ottov av rj X/dicttos 'Ir](Tov