n visited by a deputation
from the Magnesians. But had notice been sent to them as soon as he
arrived at Smyrna, the messenger would have required three days to
perform the journey; and had the Magnesians set out instantaneously,
they must have occupied three days more in travelling to him. Thus,
notwithstanding all the precipitation with which he was hurried along,
he could scarcely have been less than a week in Smyrna. See "Corpus
Ignatianum," pp. 326, 327.

[394:1] "He was _pressed_ by the soldiers to _hasten_ to the public
spectacles at great Rome." "And the _wind continuing favourable_ to us,
in one day and night we were _hurried_ on."--_Acts of his Martyrdom_, Sec.
10, 11.

[394:2] Philadelphia is distant from Troas about two hundred miles.
"Corpus Ignatianum," pp. 331, 332. Here, then, is another difficulty
connected with this hasty journey. How could a deputation from
Philadelphia meet Ignatius in Troas, as some allege they did, if he did
not stop a considerable time there? See other difficulties suggested by
Dr Cureton. "Cor. Ignat." p. 332.

[395:1] Such is the opinion maintained by the celebrated Whiston in his
"Primitive Christianity." More recently Meier took up nearly the same
position.

[395:2] See Preface to the "Corpus Ignatianum," p. 4.

[395:3] Published in 1849. In 1846 he published his "Vindiciae
Ignatianae; or the Genuine Writings of St Ignatius, as exhibited in the
ancient Syriac version, vindicated from the charge of heresy."

[396:1] In 1847 another copy of the Syriac version of the three epistles
was deposited in the British Museum, and since, Sir Henry Rawlinson is
said to have obtained a third copy at Bagdad. See "British Quarterly"
for October 1855, p. 452.

[396:2] Dr Lee, late Regius Professor of Hebrew in Cambridge, Chevalier
Bunsen, and other scholars of great eminence, have espoused the views of
Dr Cureton.

[396:3] By Archbishop Ussher in 1644, and by Vossius in 1646.

[396:4] Such was the opinion of Ussher himself. "Concludimus ... nullas
omni ex parte sinceras esse habendas et genuinas." Dissertation prefixed
to his edition of "Polycarp and Ignatius," chap. 18.

[397:1] Pearson was occupied six years in the preparation of this work.
The publication of Daille, to which it was a reply, appeared in 1666.
Daille died in 1670, at the advanced age of seventy-six. The work of
Pearson did not appear until two years afterwards, or in 1672. The year
following he received the bisho