[398:1] Dr Cureton has shewn that even the learned Jerome must have known very little of these letters. "Corpus Ignat.", Introd. p. 67.
[398:2] Euseb. iii. c. 36.
[399:1] Euseb. i. c. 13.
[399:2] "Corpus Ignatianum," Introd. p. 71.
[399:3] Proleg. in "Cantic. Canticorum," and Homil. vi. in "Lucam."
[399:4] In the Epistle to the Romans, and the Epistle to the Ephesians.
[399:5] He quotes the words—"I am not an incorporeal demon," from the "Doctrine of Peter;" but they are found in the shorter recension of the seven letters in the "Epistle to the Smyrnaeans," § 3. Had this epistle been known to him, he would certainly have quoted from an apostolic father rather than from a work which he knew to be spurious. See Origen, "Opera," i. p. 49, note.
[400:1] "Opera," ii. 20, 21; iii. 271.
[400:2] See Period II. sec. ii. chap. i. p. 367. Origen, "Opera," iv. 473.
[400:3] Ibid. p. 368.