re free translation--"To her who
_presideth_ in the place of the country of the Romans." "Corp. Ignat."
p. 230. Tertullian speaks ("De Praescrip." c. 36) of the "Apostolic sees
_presiding over their own places_"--referring to an arrangement then
recently made which recognised the precedence of Churches to which
Apostles had ministered. This arrangement, which was unknown in the time
of Ignatius, was suggested by the disturbances and divisions created by
the heretics. Though the words in the text may be quoted in support of
the claims of the bishop of Rome, they do not necessarily imply his
presidency over all Churches, but they plainly acknowledge his position
as at the head of the Churches of Italy.

[411:1] See Euseb. iii. 36.

[411:2] See preceding note, p. 406.

[411:3] "Corpus Ignatianum," Intro, p. 86, note.

[412:1] See "Corpus Ignatianum," pp. 265, 267, 269, 271, 286.

[412:2] See Blunt's "Right Use of the Early Fathers." First Series.
Lectures v. and vi.

[414:1] It would be very unfair to follow up this comparison by speaking
of the Trustees of the British Museum, as the representatives of
hierarchical pride and power, proceeding, like Tarquin at the
instigation of his augurs, to give a high price for the manuscripts. We
believe that these gentlemen have rendered good service to the cause of
truth and literature by the purchase.

[414:2] Bunsen rather reluctantly admits that the highest literary
authority of the present century, the late Dr Neander, declined to
recognise even the Syriac version of the Ignatian Epistles. See
"Hippolytus and his Age," iv. Preface, p. 26.

[415:1] See "Corpus Ignat." Introd. p. 51.

[416:1] Thus, in his "Epistle to the Corinthians," Clemens Romanus, on
one occasion, (Sec. 16,) quotes the whole of the 53d chapter of Isaiah;
and, on another, (Sec. 18,) the whole of the 51st Psalm, with the exception
of the last two verses.

[416:2] How different from the course pursued by Clement of Rome and by
Polycarp! Thus, Clement says to the Corinthians--"Let us do _as it is
written_," and then goes on to quote several passages of Scripture. Sec.
13. Polycarp says--"I trust that ye are well _exercised in the Holy
Scriptures_" and then proceeds, like Clement, to make some quotations.
Sec. 12.

[416:3] Phil. iii. 3.

[416:4] Eph. vi. 17.

[416:5] Heb. xii. 1, 2.

[416:6] "Epistle to Polycarp." Lest the plain English reader should
believe that the folly of the original is exagg