of putting the statement at the head of note 3, with reference to “A.D. 115” in the text, but unfortunately an interruption at the time prevented the completion of this intention, as well as the addition of some fuller references to the writers quoted, which had been omitted, and the point, to my infinite regret, was overlooked.  The whole of the authorities in note 3, therefore, do not support the apparent statement of martyrdom in Antioch, although they all confirm the date, for which I really referred to them.  With this explanation, and marking the omitted references [89:1] by placing them within brackets, I proceed to analyse the two notes in contrast with Dr. Westcott’s statements.

NOTE 3, FOR THE DATE A.D. 115-116.

DR. WESTCOTT’S STATEMENTS.        |     THE TRUTH.
|
| Baur, Urspr. d.  Episc., Tueb.
| Zeitschr. 1838, H.3 (p. 149,
| Anm.) Baur states as the date of
| the Parthian war, and of Trajan’s
| visit to Rome, “during which the
| above order” (the sentence against
| Ignatius) is said to have been
| given, A.D. 115 and not 107.
|
“1.  Baur, Urspr. d.  Episc., Tueb.   | Ibid._ p. 155, Anm. 
Zeitschr._ 1838, ii. 3. p. 155,      |
Anm.  In this note, which is too      | After showing the extreme
long  to quote, there is nothing,  | improbability of the circumstances
so far as I see, in any way         | under which the letters to the
bearing upon the history [90:1]     | Smyrnaeans and to Polycarp are said
except a passing supposition ’wenn   | to have been written, Baur points
...  Ignatius im J. 116 an ihn        | out the additional difficulty in
[Polycarp] ... schrieb ...’          | regard to the latter that, if
| [Polycarp] died in A.D. 167 in his
| 86th year, and Ignatius wrote to him
| as already Bishop of Smyrna in A.D.
| 116, he must have become bishop at
| least in his 35th year, and
| continued so for upwards of half
| a century.  The inference is clear
| that if Ignatius died so much
| earlier as A.D. 107 it involves
| the still greater improbability
| that Polycarp must have become
| Bishop of Smyrna at latest in his
| 26th year, which is scarcely to be
| maintained, and the later date is
| thus obviously supported.
|
| (Ibid. Gesch. christl.  Kirche,
| i. p. 440, Anm. 1.)
|
| Baur supports the assertion that
| Ignatius suffered martyrdom in
| Antioch, A.D. 115.
|
“2.  Bretschneider, Probabilia, x.  | The same.
p. 185.  ’Pergamus ad Ignatium ’qui  |
circa annum cxvi obiisse dicitur.’  |
|
“3.  Bleek, Einl.  N.T. p. 144       | Bleek, Einl.  N.T. p. 144.
[p. 142 ed. 1862] ’...  In den        |
Briefen des Ignatius Bischofes von   | Ignatius suffered martyrdom at Rome
Antiochien, der unter Trajan gegen   | under Trajan, A.D. 115.
115 zu Rom als Maertyrer starb.’   |
|
“4.  Guericke, Handb.  K.G. i.       | Guericke, Handbuch K.G. i. p. 148.
p. 148 [p. 177 ed. 3, 1838, the      |
edition which I have used].          | Ignatius was sent to Rome, under