pric of Chester as his reward.

[397:2] "In the whole course of my inquiry respecting the Ignatian
Epistles," says Dr Cureton, "_I have never met with one person who
professes to have read Bishop Pearson's celebrated book_; but I was
informed by one of the most learned and eminent of the present bench of
bishops, that Porson, after having perused the 'Vindiciae,' had
expressed to him his opinion that it was a 'very unsatisfactory
work.'"--_Corpus Ignat._, Preface, pp. 14, 15, note. Bishop Pearson's
work is written in Latin.

[397:3] The "Three Epistles" edited by Dr Cureton contain only about the
_one-fourth_ of the matter of the seven shorter letters edited by
Ussher.

[398:1] Dr Cureton has shewn that even the learned Jerome must have
known very little of these letters. "Corpus Ignat.", Introd. p. 67.

[398:2] Euseb. iii. c. 36.

[399:1] Euseb. i. c. 13.

[399:2] "Corpus Ignatianum," Introd. p. 71.

[399:3] Proleg. in "Cantic. Canticorum," and Homil. vi. in "Lucam."

[399:4] In the Epistle to the Romans, and the Epistle to the Ephesians.

[399:5] He quotes the words--"I am not an incorporeal demon," from the
"Doctrine of Peter;" but they are found in the shorter recension of the
seven letters in the "Epistle to the Smyrnaeans," Sec. 3. Had this epistle
been known to him, he would certainly have quoted from an apostolic
father rather than from a work which he knew to be spurious. See Origen,
"Opera," i. p. 49, note.

[400:1] "Opera," ii. 20, 21; iii. 271.

[400:2] See Period II. sec. ii. chap. i. p. 367. Origen, "Opera," iv.
473.

[400:3] Ibid. p. 368.

[400:4] "Opera," i. 79; iv. 683.

[400:5] "Contra Haereses," lib. v. c. 28, Sec. 4. "Quidam de nostris dixit,
propter martyrium in Deum adjudicatus ad bestias: Quoniam frumentum sum
Christi, et per dentes bestiarum molor, ut mundus panis Dei inveniar."

[401:1] Thus he speaks of "Saturninus, who was from Antioch." "Contra
Haereses," lib. i. c. 24, Sec. 1.

[401:2] It seems to have been soon translated into Syriac. See Bunsen's
"Hippolytus," iv. Preface, p. 8.

[401:3] See large extracts from this letter in Euseb. v. c. i. Also
Routh's "Reliquiae," i. 329.

[402:1] Irenaeus, "Contra Haereses," lib. iii. c. 2, Sec. 1, 2.

[402:2] Lib. iii. c. 3, Sec. 3.

[402:3] Lib. iii. c. iii. Sec. 4.

[402:4] Lib. v. c. xxxiii. Sec. 3, 4.

[402:5] Lib. iv. c. vi. Sec. 2.

[402:6] In his "Vindiciae," (Pars. i. cap. 6,) Pearson attempts to parry
this argum