all confirm the date, for which I really referred
to them. With this explanation, and marking the omitted references
[89:1] by placing them within brackets, I proceed to analyse the two
notes in contrast with Dr. Westcott's statements.

NOTE 3, FOR THE DATE A.D. 115-116.

DR. WESTCOTT'S STATEMENTS. | THE TRUTH.
|
| Baur, _Urspr. d. Episc., Tueb.
| Zeitschr._ 1838, H.3 (p. 149,
| Anm.) Baur states as the date of
| the Parthian war, and of Trajan's
| visit to Rome, "during which the
| above order" (the sentence against
| Ignatius) is said to have been
| given, A.D. 115 and not 107.
|
"1. Baur, _Urspr. d. Episc., Tueb. | _Ibid._ p. 155, Anm.
Zeitschr._ 1838, ii. 3. p. 155, |
Anm. In this note, which is too | After showing the extreme
long to quote, _there is nothing_, | improbability of the circumstances
so far as I see, _in any way | under which the letters to the
bearing_ upon the history [90:1] | Smyrnaeans and to Polycarp are said
except a passing supposition 'wenn | to have been written, Baur points
... Ignatius im J. 116 an ihn | out the additional difficulty in
[Polycarp] ... schrieb ...' | regard to the latter that, if
| [Polycarp] died in A.D. 167 in his
| 86th year, and Ignatius wrote to him
| as already Bishop of Smyrna in A.D.
| 116, he must have become bishop at
| least in his 35th year, and
| continued so for upwards of half
| a century. The inference is clear
| that if Ignatius died so much
| earlier as A.D. 107 it involves
| the still greater improbability
| that Polycarp must have become
| Bishop of Smyrna at latest in his