ain to the British merchants at Aleppo, twice undertook a
voyage to Egypt in quest of copies of the Ignatian epistles. On one of
these occasions he visited the monastery in the Nitrian desert in which
the letters were recently found.

[390:1] Of the writers who have taken a prominent part in the Ignatian
controversy we may particularly mention Ussher, Vossius, Hammond,
Daille, Pearson, Larroque, Rothe, Baur, Cureton, Hefele, and Bunsen.

[390:2] Matt, xviii. 2-4; Mark ix. 36.

[390:3] There has been a keen controversy respecting the accentuation of
[Greek: Theophoros]. Those who place the accent on the antepenult
([Greek: Theo'phoros]) give it the meaning mentioned in the test; whilst
others, placing the accent on the penult ([Greek: Theopho'ros]),
understand by it _God-bearing_, the explanation given in the "Acts of
the Martyrdom of Ignatius." See Daille, "De Scriptis quae sub Dionysii
Areop. et Ignatii Antioch. nom. circumferuntur," lib. ii. c. 25; and
Pearson's "Vindiciae Ignatianae," pars. sec. cap. xii.

[391:1] Cave reckons that at the time of his martyrdom he was probably
"above fourscore years old." See his "Life of Ignatius."

[391:2] See Period II. sec. in. chap. v. Evodius is commonly represented
as the first bishop of Antioch.

[392:1] "Fuerunt alii similis amentiae: quos, quia cives Romani erant,
annotavi in Urbem remittendos."--_Plinii_, _Epist_. lib. x. epist. 96.

[392:2] The Greek says the _ninth_, and the Latin the _fourth_ year.
According to both, the condemnation took place _early_ in the reign of
Trajan. See also the first sentence of the "Acts." In his translation of
these "Acts," Wake, regardless of this statement, and in opposition to
all manuscript authority, represents the sentence as pronounced "in the
_nineteenth_ year" of Trajan.

[392:3] See Jacobson's "Patres Apostolici," ii. p. 504. See also
Greswell's "Dissertations," vol. iv. p. 422. It is evident that the date
in the "Acts" cannot be the mistake of a transcriber, for in the same
document the martyrdom is said to have occurred when Sura and Synecius
were consuls. These, as Greswell observes, were actually consuls "in the
_ninth_ of Trajan." Greswell's "Dissertations," iv. p. 416. Hefele,
however, has attempted to show that Trajan was really in Antioch about
this time. See his "Pat. Apost. Opera Prolegomena," p. 35. Edit.
Tubingen, 1842.

[393:1] "Acts of his Martyrdom," Sec. 8.

[393:2] He is said, when at Smyrna, to have bee