the reading adopted by Junius, and others, of a passage in
the 4th chapter of his Epistle be correct, Polycarp must have been a
married man, and probably had a family. "Let us teach our wives to walk
in the faith that is given to them, both in love and purity,.... and _to
bring up their children_ in the instruction and fear of the Lord." See
Jacobson's "Pat. Apost." ii. 472, note.

[421:1] Period II. sec. iii. chap. vii.

[421:2] See his "Epistle to the Corinthians," c. 42, 44, 47, 54.

[421:3] See Westcott on the "Canon," pp. 262, 264, 265.

[421:4] "In the estimation of those able and apostolical men who, in the
second century, prepared the Syriac version of the New Testament for the
use of some of the Oriental Churches, the _bishop and presbyter_ of the
apostolic ordination were _titles of the same individual_. Hence in
texts wherein the Greek word _episcopos_, 'bishop,' occurs, it is
rendered in their version by the Syriac word '_Kashisha_,'
presbyter."--_Etheridge's Syrian Churches and Gospels_, pp. 102, 103.

[421:5] The use of the word _catholic_ in the "Seven Epistles," edited
by Ussher, is sufficient to discredit them. See "Epist. to Smyrnaeans,"
Sec. 8. The word did not come into use until towards the close of the
second century. See Period II. sec. iii, chap, viii., and p. 337, note.

[422:1] "Epistle to the Ephesians."

[422:2] Daille has well observed--"Funi Dei quidem verbum, ministerium,
beneficia non inepte comparaveris; Spiritum vero, qui his, ut sic dicam,
divinae benignitatis funiculis, ad nos movendos et attrahendos utitur,
ipsi illi quo utitur, funi comparare, ab omni ratione alienum
est."--Lib. ii. c. 27, pp. 409, 410.

[422:3] Col. ii. 18.

[423:1] "Epistle to the Ephesians."

[423:2] Matt. xxvi. 39.

[423:3] John xxi. 18.

[423:4] 2 Tim. iv. 17.

[424:1] We have here an additional and very clear proof that Polycarp,
in his Epistle, is not referring to Ignatius of Antioch. Instead of
pronouncing the letters now current as treating "of faith and
_patience_, and of all things that pertain to edification," he would
have condemned them as specimens of folly, impatience, and presumption.
Dr Cureton seems to think that, because Ignatius was an old man, he was
at liberty to throw away his life ("Corp. Ignat." p. 321); but Polycarp
was still older, and he thought differently.

[424:2] Sec. 4.

[424:3] See "Corpus Ignatianum," p. 253.

[424:4] The reader is to understand that all the e