xtracts given in the
text are from the Syriac version of the "Three Epistles."

[425:1] "Epistle to the Ephesians."

[425:2] "Epistle to the Romans." Pearson can see nothing but the
perfection of piety in all this. "In quibus nihil putidum, nihil
odiosum, nihil _inscite_ aut _imprudenter_ scriptum est." ... "Omnia cum
pia, legitima, praeclara."--_Vindiciae_, pars secunda, c. ix.

[425:3] From A.D. 208 to A.D. 258.

[425:4] Thus in the "Acts of Paul and Thecla," fabricated about the
beginning of the third century, Thecla says--"Give me the seal of
Christ, (_i.e._ baptism,) and _no temptation shall touch me_," (c. 18.)
See Jones on the "Canon of the New Testament," ii. p. 312.

[426:1] "Epistle to Polycarp."

[426:2] 1 Cor. xiii. 3.

[426:3] See Blunt's "Early Fathers," p. 237. See also Origen's
"Exhortation to Martyrdom," Sec. 27, 30, 50.

[426:4] According to Dr Lee, a strenuous advocate for the Syriac version
of the "Three Epistles," _this translation_, as he supposes it to be,
was made "not later perhaps than the close of the second, or beginning
of the _third century_." "Corpus Ignat." Introd. p. 86, note. Dr Cureton
occasionally supplies strong presumptive evidence that the translation
has been made, not from Greek into Syriac, but from Syriac into Greek.
"Cor. Ignat." p. 278.

[426:5] Though Milner, in his "History of the Church of Christ," quotes
these letters so freely, he seems to have scarcely turned his attention
to the controversy respecting them. Hence he intimates that Ussher
reckoned _seven_ of them genuine, though it is notorious that the
Primate of Armagh rejected the Epistle to Polycarp. (See Milner, cent.
ii. chap, i.) Others, as well as Milner, who have written respecting
these Epistles, have committed similar mistakes. Thus, Dr Elrington,
Regius Professor of Divinity in Trinity College, Dublin, the recent
editor of "Ussher's Works," when referring to the Primate's share in
this controversy, speaks of "the recent discovery of a Syriac version of
_four_ Epistles by Mr Cureton!" "Life of Ussher," p. 235, note.

[428:1] "Instit." lib. i. c. xiii. Sec. 29.

[429:1] See Bunsen's "Hippolytus," i. p. 27.

[430:1] Period I. sec. ii. chap, iii. pp. 202, 203.

[430:2] See Tertullian, "Adversus Hermogenem," c. x. and iv.

[430:3] [Greek: gnosis].

[431:1] Ps. cxiii. 6.

[431:2] See Tertullian, "Adversus Marcionem," lib. i. c. 2. About this
time many works were written on the subject. Eusebius