Note 1425 — THE EPISTLES OF IGNATIUS AFTER THE SYRIAC VERSION.

The following passage is not found in this epistle in the Greek recensions, but forms, in substance, chaps. iv. and v. of the Epistle to the Trallians. Diverse views are held by critics as to its proper place, according to the degree of authority they ascribe to the Syriac version. Cureton maintains that this passage has been transferred by the forger of the Epistle to the Trallians, “to give a fair colour to the fabrication by introducing a part of the genuine writing of Ignatius;” while Hefele asserts that it is bound by the “closest connection” to the preceding chapter in the Epistle to the Trallians.