aintance with all the
by-paths of the Ignatian literature, and seems to represent the
gleanings of many years' reading. It is important to observe,
however, that every one of these references, except those which I
have included in brackets, is given in the appendix to Cureton's
'Vindiciae Ignatianae,' where the passages are quoted in full. Thus
two-thirds of this elaborate note might have been compiled in ten
minutes. Our author has here and there transposed the order of the
quotations, and confused it by so doing, for it is chronological in
Cureton. But what purpose was served by thus importing into his
notes a mass of borrowed and unsorted references? And, if he thought
fit to do so, why was the key-reference to Cureton buried among the
rest, so that it stands in immediate connection with some additional
references on which it has no bearing?" [68:1]

I do not see any special virtue in the amount of time which might
suffice, under some circumstances, to compile a note, although it is
here advanced as an important point to observe, but I call attention to
the unfair spirit in which Dr. Lightfoot's criticisms are made. I ask
every just-minded reader to consider what right any critic has to
insinuate, if not directly to say, that, because some of the references
in a note are also given by Cureton, I simply took them from him, and
thus "imported into my notes a mass of borrowed and unsorted
references," and further to insinuate that I "here and there transposed
the order" apparently to conceal the source? This is a kind of
criticism which I very gladly relinquish entirely to my high-minded and
reverend opponent. Now, as full quotations are given in Cureton's
appendix, I should have been perfectly entitled to take references from
it, had I pleased, and for the convenience of many readers I distinctly
indicate Cureton's work, in the note, as a source to be compared. The
fact is, however, that I did not take the references from Cureton, but
in every case derived them from the works themselves, and if the note
"seems to represent the gleanings of many years' reading," it certainly
does not misrepresent the fact, for I took the trouble to make myself
acquainted with the "by-paths of Ignatian literature." Now in analysing
the references in this note it must be borne in mind that they
illustrate the statement that "_doubts, more or less definite_,"
continued to be expressed reg