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"9. Remember in your prayers the Church which is in Syria, which has God for its shepherd in my stead. Jesus Christ alone shall be its bishop, He and your love; but for myself, I am ashamed to be called one of them; for neither am I worthy, being the very last of them and an untimely birth; but I have found mercy that I should be some one, if so I shall attain unto God. My spirit salutes you, and the love of the Churches which received me in the name of Jesus Christ, not as a mere wayfarer; for even those Churches which did not lie on my route after the flesh, went before me from city to city.

"10. Now I write these things to you from Smyrna, by the hand of the Ephesians, who are worthy of all felicitation. And Crocus also, a name very dear to me, is with me, with many others besides.

"11. As touching those who went before me from Syria to Rome, to the glory of God, I believe that ye have received instructions; whom also apprize that I am near, for they all are worthy of God and of you, and it becomes you to refresh them in all things. These things I write to you on the 9th before the Kalends of September. Fare-ye-well unto the end in the patient waiting for Jesus Christ."

Vol. i. p. 316.

Vol. i. p. 107.

Vol. i. p. 321, note.

Vol. i. p. 316.

Vol. i. p. 321.

Vol. i. p. 320.

Vol. ii. sec. i. p. 436.

Vol. i. p.345.

Vol. i. p. 331.

See Lightfoot, vol. i. p. 131.

Page v.

Preface, p. vi.

Vol. ii. sec. i. p. 446.

Vol. i. p. 380. He says elsewhere "almost simultaneously," vol. i. p. 382.

The words "for kings" of this part of the letter are extant only in a Latin version. The passage in the Latin stands thus: "Orate etiam, pro regibus et potestatibus et principibus."

As the great monarch of Assyria surveyed the potentates under his dominion, he was tempted to exclaim vaingloriously, "Are not my princes all of them kings?" Isa. x. 8, Revised Version. The emperor of Rome might have uttered the same proud boast.

Vol. i. p. 576.

Vol. i. p. 407

This road was several hundred miles in length.

Vol. ii. sec. ii. p. 921, note.

Epistle to Polycarp, ? 7.

The words may be literally translated, "If any one is going to Syria, he might convey to you my letters which I shall have finished," that is, which I have ready. Friendly letters were then generally much longer than in our day, as the opportunities of transmitting them were few; and much longer time was occupied in their preparation.

'Ortygiam supra Syria est quaedam insula.'"

"There is an isle above Ortygia, If thou hast heard, they call it Syria."

Smith, p. 21.

Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans, ? 11.

Vol. i. p. 629.

Vol. i. pp. 629, 630.

Vol. i. p. 630.

Lightfoot, vol. i. p. 632.

Vol. i. p. 148.

Vol. i. p. 633.

Vol. i. p. 451.

Vol. i. p. 635.

Vol. i. p. 640.

Vol. i. pp. 639, 640.

Vol. i. 610.

It is probable that the postscript was written many years after the event; and, under these circumstances, the writer may have mistaken the name of the proconsul at the time. Eusebius seems to have known nothing of this postscript, and it is now impossible to tell when it was added.

Ummidius Quadratus, in A.D. 167, was associated with the Emperor Lucius Verus in the consulship; and it would appear that about A.D. 169--on the ground of exceptional ability and influence--he was appointed to the proconsulship of Asia.

It is stated in this same postscript, that "Philip of Tralles was high priest," or Asiarch, at the time of the martyrdom of Polycarp. From this fact Dr. Lightfoot has endeavoured to derive support for his chronology. His argument is, however, quite inconclusive. The dignity of Asiarch could be enjoyed only by the very rich, as none others could sustain the expense of it; and the same individual might hold it for years together, as well as again and again. The Philip of whom Dr. Lightfoot speaks, had a son of the same name, who may also have been high priest or Asiarch. See Lightfoot, vol. i. pp. 612, 613, 615, 616.

Euseb. iv.

Vol. i. p. 443.

Vol. i. p. 343.

Vol. i. pp. 443-44.

Vol. i. p. 510.

? 2.

See Neander, i. p. 147. Edinburgh 1847.

Neander, i. p. 146.

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