The journeys undertaken in search of the Ignatian
Epistles, and
the amount of literature to
which they have given birth, 389
Why these letters have awakened such interest,
390
The story of Ignatius and its difficulties,
ib.
The Seven Epistles known to Eusebius and those which
appeared
afterwards,
394
The different recensions of the Seven Letters known
to Eusebius, 395
The discovery of the Syriac version,
ib.
Diminished size of the Curetonian Letters,
397
The testimony of Eusebius considered,
398
The testimony of Origen,
399
The Ignatian Epistles not recognised by Irenaeus or
Polycarp, 400
These letters not known to Tertullian, Hippolytus,
and other early
writers,
408
The date of their fabrication. Their multiplication
accounted for, 409
Remarkable that spurious works are often found in
more than one
edition,
411
CHAPTER III.
The Ignatian epistles and their claims—the internal evidence.
The history of these Epistles like the story of the
Sibylline books, 413
The three Curetonian Letters as objectionable as those
formerly
published,
414
The style suspicious, challenged by Ussher,
415
The Word of God strangely ignored in these letters,
ib.
Their chronological blunders betray their forgery,
417
Various words in them have a meaning which they did
not acquire
until after the time of Ignatius,
419
Their puerilities, vapouring, and mysticism betray
their
spuriousness,
422
The anxiety for martyrdom displayed in them attests
their forgery, 423
The internal evidence confirms the view already taken
of the date
of their fabrication,
425
Strange attachment of Episcopalians to these letters,
426
The sagacity of Calvin,
427