am dreizehnten December 115 | eingetretenen Erdbebens, als Opfer | eines aberglaeubischen Volkswahns am | zwanzigsten December dieses Jahres | im Amphitheater den wilden Thieren | zur Beute ueberliefert worden zu | sein.’ | | “9.  Volkmar, Der Ursprung, p. 52 | Volkmar, Der Ursprung, p. 52, [p. 52 ff.] [92:1] [This book I | affirms the martyrdom at Antioch, have not been able to consult, but | 20th December, 115. from secondary references I gather | that it repeats the arguments given | under the next reference.] | | “10.  Volkmar, Haindb. Einl.  Apocr. | Ibid. Handbuch Einl.  Apocr. pp. 121 f., 136.  ’Ein Haupt der | p. 121 f., affirms the martyrdom Gemeinde zu Antiochia, Ignatius, | at Antioch, 20th December, 115. wurde, waehrend Trajan dortselbst | ueberwinterte, am 20.  December den | Thieren vorgeworfen, in Folge der | durch das Erdbeben vom 13.  December | 115 gegen die [Greek:  atheoi] | erweckten Volkswuth, ein Opfer | zugleich der Siegesfeste des | Parthicus, welche die Judith- | Erzaehlung (i. 16) andeutet, Dio | (c. 24 f.; vgl. c. 10) voraussetzt | ...’ | | “P. 136.  The same statement is | Ibid. p. 136.  The same repeated briefly.” [93:1] | statement, with fuller | chronological evidence.

It will thus be seen that the whole of these authorities confirm the later date assigned to the martyrdom, and that Baur, in the note in which Dr. Westcott finds “nothing in any way bearing upon the history except a passing supposition,” really advances a weighty argument for it and against the earlier date, and as Dr. Westcott considers, rightly, that argument should decide everything, I am surprised that he has not perceived the propriety of my referring to arguments as well as statements of evidence.

To sum up the opinions expressed, I may state that whilst all the nine writers support the later date, for which purpose they were quoted, three of them (Bleek, Guericke, and Mayerhoff) ascribe the martyrdom to Rome, one (Bretschneider) mentions no place, one (Hagenbach) is doubtful, but leans to Antioch, and the other four declare for the martyrdom in Antioch.  Nothing, however, could show more conclusively the purpose of note 3, which I have explained, than this very contradiction, and the fact that I claim for the general statement in the text, regarding the martyrdom in Antioch itself in opposition to the legend of the journey to and death in Rome, only the authorities in note 4, which I shall now proceed to analyse in contrast with Dr. Westcott’s statements, and here I beg the favour of the reader’s attention.

NOTE 4.