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
| 26th year, which is scarcely to be
| maintained, and the later date is
| thus obviously supported.
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