Note 32 — II. THE ANTE-NICENE CHURCH.

“Si glorietur, perditur: et si videri velit plus Episcopo, corruptus est.”—Ad Polycarp. cap. v. (Cureton’s Corpus Ignat. p. 10.) This is the received Latin text, but the weight of authority seems to incline rather to the reading πλήν τοῦ ἐπισκόπου than πλέον (Cureton, p. 228—Petermann’s Ignatius, 274-5). The difference, however, is of little moment to our present purpose.