peculiarities, ib.
Cyprian--his training, character, and writings, 381
Gregory Thaumaturgus, 383
The value of the Fathers as ecclesiastical authorities, 384
Their erroneous and absurd expositions, 385
The excellency of Scripture, 387

CHAPTER II.

THE IGNATIAN EPISTLES AND THEIR CLAIMS--THE EXTERNAL EVIDENCE.

The journeys undertaken in search of the Ignatian Epistles, and
the amount of literature to which they have given birth, 389
Why these letters have awakened such interest, 390
The story of Ignatius and its difficulties, ib.
The Seven Epistles known to Eusebius and those which appeared
afterwards, 394
The different recensions of the Seven Letters known to Eusebius, 395
The discovery of the Syriac version, ib.
Diminished size of the Curetonian Letters, 397
The testimony of Eusebius considered, 398
The testimony of Origen, 399
The Ignatian Epistles not recognised by Irenaeus or Polycarp, 400
These letters not known to Tertullian, Hippolytus, and other early
writers, 408
The date of their fabrication. Their multiplication accounted for, 409
Remarkable that spurious works are often found in more than one
edition, 411

CHAPTER III.

THE IGNATIAN EPISTLES AND THEIR CLAIMS--THE INTERNAL EVIDENCE.

The history of these Epistles like the story of the Sibylline books, 413
The three Curetonian Letters as objectionable as those formerly
published, 414
The style suspicious, challenged by Ussher, 415
The Word of God strangely ignored in these letters, ib.
Their chronological blunders betray their forgery, 417
Various words in them have a meaning which they did not acquire
until after the time of Ignatius, 419
Their puerilities, vapouring, and mysticism betray their
spuriou