Footnote 730: Cod. Sin. omits “therefore.” Footnote 731: The things condemned in the previous chapter. Footnote 732: Cod. Sin. has “resurrections,” but is corrected as above. Footnote 733: Cod. Sin. has, “lawgivers of good things.” Footnote 734: Cod. Sin. omits the preposition. Footnote 735: Cod. Sin. omits this. Footnote 736: Cod. Sin. reads, “that ye may be found in the day of judgment,” which Hilgenfeld adopts. Footnote 737: Literally, “While yet the good vessel is with you,” _i.e._ as long as you are in the body. Footnote 738: Cod. Sin. reads, “fail not in any one of yourselves,” which is adopted by Hilgenfeld. Footnote 739: Corrected in Cod. Sin. to, “it is worthy.” Footnote 740: Cod. Sin. omits this clause, but it is inserted by the corrector. Footnote 741: Cod. Sin. omits “Amen,” and adds at the close, “Epistle of Barnabas.” THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS. (SHORTER AND LONGER.) INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. The epistles ascribed to Ignatius have given rise to more controversy than any other documents connected with the primitive church. As is evident to every reader on the very first glance at these writings, they contain numerous statements which bear on points of ecclesiastical order that have long divided the Christian world; and a strong temptation has thus been felt to allow some amount of prepossession to enter into the discussion of their authenticity or spuriousness. At the same time, this question has furnished a noble field for the display of learning and acuteness, and has, in the various forms under which it has been debated, given rise to not a few works of the very highest ability and scholarship. We shall present such an outline of the controversy as may enable the reader to understand its position at the present day. There are, in all, fifteen epistles which bear the name of Ignatius. These are the following: One to the Virgin Mary, two to the Apostle John, one to Mary of Cassobelæ, one to the Tarsians, one to the Antiochians, one to Hero, a deacon of Antioch, one to the Philippians; one to the Ephesians, one to the Magnesians, one to the Trallians, one to the Romans, one to the Philadelphians, one to the Smyrnæans, and one to Polycarp. The first three exist only in Latin: all the rest are extant also in Greek. It is now the universal opinion of critics, that the first eight of these professedly Ignatian letters are spurious. They bear in themselves indubitable proofs of being the production of a later age than that in which Ignatius lived. Neither Eusebius nor Jerome makes the least reference to them; and they are now by common consent set aside as forgeries, which were at various dates, and to serve special purposes, put forth under the name of the celebrated bishop of Antioch.