Some read, “He was taken down from the cross, and laid in a new tomb.” Footnote 1053: Matt. xii. 40. Footnote 1054: Literally, “to fight with.” Footnote 1055: Some read this and the following clause affirmatively, instead of interrogatively. Footnote 1056: The meaning is, that if they spoke the truth concerning the phantasmal character of Christ’s death, then Ignatius was guilty of a practical falsehood in suffering for what was false. Footnote 1057: Literally, “to fight with.” Footnote 1058: The meaning is, that if they spoke the truth concerning the phantasmal character of Christ’s death, then Ignatius was guilty of a practical falsehood in suffering for what was false. Footnote 1059: Zech. xii. 10. Footnote 1060: Ps. xli. 10. Footnote 1061: Comp. John xi. 42. Footnote 1062: Ps. lxxxii. 8. Footnote 1063: John xi. 25, 26. Footnote 1064: _i.e._ the cross. Footnote 1065: Both text and meaning are here doubtful. Footnote 1066: _i.e._ Satan’s. Footnote 1067: Literally, “loud, confused noise.” Footnote 1068: The Ebionites, who denied the divine nature of our Lord, are here referred to. Footnote 1069: It seems to be here denied that Nicolas was the founder of this school of heretics. Footnote 1070: Matt. xv. 13. Footnote 1071: Phil. iii. 18. Footnote 1072: 1 Cor. ii. 8. Footnote 1073: _i.e._ the least. Footnote 1074: The shorter recension reads ἁγνίζετε, and the longer also hesitates between this and ἀσπάζεται. With the former reading the meaning is very obscure: it has been corrected as above to ἁγνίζηται. Footnote 1075: _i.e._ the least. Footnote 1076: The shorter recension reads ἁγνίζετε, and the longer also hesitates between this and ἀσπάζεται. With the former reading the meaning is very obscure: it has been corrected as above to ἁγνίζηται. THE EPISTLE OF IGNATIUS TO THE ROMANS. SHORTER. _Ignatius, who is also called Theophorus, to the church which has obtained mercy, through the majesty of the Most High Father, and Jesus Christ, His only-begotten Son; the church which is beloved and enlightened by the will of Him that willeth all things which are according to the love of Jesus Christ our God, which also presides in the place of the region of the Romans, worthy of God, worthy of honour, worthy of the highest happiness, worthy of praise, worthy of obtaining her every desire, worthy of being deemed holy,[1077] and which presides over love, is named from Christ, and from the Father, which I also salute in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father: to those who are united, both according to the flesh and spirit, to every one of His commandments; who are filled inseparably with the grace of God, and are purified from every strange taint, [I wish] abundance of happiness unblameably, in Jesus Christ our God._ LONGER.