"Whether this
Recension (the Curetonian) is more original than the shorter Greek
is certainly not altogether certain, but ... in the highest degree
probable." In another place he refuses to make use of reminiscences
in the "Ignatian Epistles," "because it is still very doubtful how
the case stands as regards the authenticity and integrity of these
Ignatian Epistles themselves, in the different Recensions in which
we possess them." [75:1] In fact he did not consider that their
authenticity could be established. I do not, however, include him
here at all.
_Gfroerer._--Dr. Lightfoot, again, omits to state that I do not cite
this writer like the others, but by a "Cf." merely suggest a
reference to his remarks.
_Harless_, according to Dr. Lightfoot, "avows that he must 'decidedly
reject with the most considerable critics of older and more
recent times' the opinion maintained by certain persons that
the Epistles are 'altogether spurious,' and proceeds to treat a
passage as genuine because it stands in the Vossian letters as well
as in the Long Recension."
This is a mistake. Harless quotes a passage in connection with
Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians with the distinct remark: "In this
case the disadvantage of the uncertainty regarding the Recensions is
_in part_ removed through the circumstance that both Recensions have
the passage.
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