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430 EPISTLES OF S. IGNATIUS.
and I shall therefore hold myself excused from considering
it in detail.
I take up this position the more readily, because his arguments have for
the most part been answered by anticipation. Thus when he assumes
as an assured fact (p. 132 'sicher', 'zweifellos'), that the later Ignatian
interpolator was unacquainted with the Epistle to the Romans, I refer
with some confidence to what I have written on this subject above
(p. 279 sq), and claim a verdict on the other side. To thoughtful
minds this phenomenon of Ignatian criticism should be eminently suggestive,
as the latest outcome of the negative method employed upon
an important question of early Christian literature and history.