erated in the
translation, I beg to say that, here and elsewhere, the English version
of Dr Cureton is given word for word.

[417:1] Sec. 8.

[417:2] See Period II. sec. ii. chap. ii. p. 403.

[417:3] Epistle to Philemon, 10.

[418:1] See Daille, lib. ii. c. 13. p. 316.

[418:2] According to some accounts, Timothy presided over the Church of
Ephesus until nearly the close of the first century, when he was
succeeded by Gaius. See Daille, ii. c. 13. Some attempt to get over the
difficulty by alleging that there was a _second_ Onesimus in Ephesus,
who succeeded Gaius, but of this there is no evidence whatever. The
writer who thought that Ignatius had been at school with Polycarp, also
believed, and with greater reason, that he was contemporary with the
Onesimus of the New Testament.

[418:3] "Epistle to the Romans."

[419:1] Euseb. v. 21.

[419:2] See Period II. sec. i. chap. v. p. 354.

[419:3] Paul was certainly at Rome before Peter, and according to the
reading of some copies of Irenaeus, in the celebrated passage, lib. iii.
c. 3. Sec. 2, the Church of Rome is said to have been founded by "Paul and
Peter" (see Stieren's "Irenaeus," i. 428); but Ignatius here uses the
style of expression current in the third century, and speaks of "Peter
and Paul."

[419:4] In the Epistle to Polycarp, Ignatius says, "If a man be able in
strength _to continue in chastity_, (i.e. celibacy,) _for the honour of
the body of our Lord_, let him continue without boasting." Here the word
in the Greek is [Greek: hagneia]. But this word is applied in the New
Testament to Timothy, who may have been "the husband of one wife." See 1
Tim. iv, 12, and v. 2. It is also applied by Polycarp, in his Epistle,
to married women. "Let us teach your (or our) wives to walk in the faith
that is given to them, both _in love and purity_" ([Greek: agape kai
hagneia]).--_Epistle to the Philippians_, Sec. 4. See also "The Shepherd of
Hermas," book ii. command. 4; Cotelerius, i. 87.

[420:1] This is very evident from the recently discovered work of
Hippolytus, as well as from other writers of the same period. See
Bunsen's "Hippolytus," i. p. 312.

[420:2] Euseb. vii. 30.

[420:3] Some have supposed that this was the church of Antioch, but it
is not likely that Paul would have cared to retain the church when
deserted by the people. Besides, the building is called, not the church,
but "the house of the Church" ([Greek: tes ekklesias oikos]).

[420:4] If