DR. WESTCOTT'S STATEMENTS. | THE TRUTH.
|
1. Volkmar: see above. | Volkmar, _Handbuch Einl. Apocr._
| i. pp. 121 ff., 136 f.
|
| It will be observed on turning to
| the passage "above" (10), to which
| Dr. Westcott refers, that he quotes
| a single sentence containing merely
| a concise statement of facts, and
| that no indication is given to the
| reader that there is anything beyond
| it. At p. 136 "the same statement
| is repeated briefly." Now either
| Dr. Westcott, whilst bringing a most
| serious charge against my work, based
| upon this "one example," has actually
| not taken the trouble to examine my
| reference to "pp. 121 ff., 136 f.,"
| and p. 50 ff., to which he would
| have found himself there directed,
| or he has acted towards me with a
| want of fairness which I venture to
| say he will be the first to regret,
| when he considers the facts.
|
| Would it be divined from the words
| opposite, and the sentence "above,"
| that Volkmar enters into an elaborate
| argument, extending over a dozen
| closely printed pages, to prove that
| Ignatius was not sent to Rome at all,
| but suffered martyrdom in Antioch
| itself on the 20th December, A.D. 115,
| probably as a sacrifice to the
| superstitious fury of the people