| DR. LIGHTFOOT'S STATEMENT.
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_Cureton, Bunsen, Boehringer, Ewald, | "The reader, therefore, will
Milman, Ritschl_, and _Weiss_ | hardly be prepared to hear that
maintain both the priority and | not one of these nine writers
genuineness of the Syriac Epistles. | condemns the Ignatian letters
_Bleek_ will not commit himself to a | as spurious. Bleek alone leaves
distinct recognition of the letters | leaves the matter in some
in any form. Of the Vossian | uncertainty while inclining to
Epistles, he says: "Aber auch die | Bunsen's view; the other eight
Echtheit dieser Recension ist | distinctly maintain the
keineswegs sicher." He considers the | genuineness of the Curetonian
priority of the Curetonian "in the | letters." [63:1]
highest degree probable." |
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_Lipsius_ rejects all the Epistles, |
as I have already said, but |
maintains the priority of the |
Syriac. |
Dr. Lightfoot's statement, therefore, is a total misrepresentation of
the facts, and of that mischievous kind which does most subtle injury.
Not one reader in twenty would take the trouble to investigate, but
would receive from such positive assertions an impression that my note
was totally wrong, when in fact it is literally correct.
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