[423:1] "Epistle to the Ephesians."
[423:2] Matt. xxvi. 39.
[423:3] John xxi. 18.
[423:4] 2 Tim. iv. 17.
[424:1] We have here an additional and very clear proof that Polycarp, in his Epistle, is not referring to Ignatius of Antioch. Instead of pronouncing the letters now current as treating "of faith and patience, and of all things that pertain to edification," he would have condemned them as specimens of folly, impatience, and presumption. Dr Cureton seems to think that, because Ignatius was an old man, he was at liberty to throw away his life ("Corp. Ignat." p. 321); but Polycarp was still older, and he thought differently.
[424:2] Sec. 4.
[424:3] See "Corpus Ignatianum," p. 253.
[424:4] The reader is to understand that all the extracts given in the text are from the Syriac version of the "Three Epistles."
[425:1] "Epistle to the Ephesians."
[425:2] "Epistle to the Romans." Pearson can see nothing but the perfection of piety in all this. "In quibus nihil putidum, nihil odiosum, nihil inscitè aut imprudenter scriptum est." … "Omnia cum pia, legitima, praeclara."—Vindiciae, pars secunda, c. ix.