their direct evidence to the Gospels, 231;
(2) the Syriac fragments, 232 sq;
their theology, 234 sq;
his doctrine of the Logos, 234;
his references to the Virgin Mary, 235 sq;
passages from his works incorporated into Irenaeus, 236 sq;
Armenian version of a fragment and its Syriac abridgment, 236 sq;
a quotation in _Chronicon Paschale_, 241 n;
his work on the Paschal controversy, 223, 225, 241 n, 242 sq;
evidence to the Fourth Gospel therefrom, 248;
notice of the Apocalypse in, 47, 216;
coincidences with St Paul's Epistles, 237;
his treatise against Marcion, 231;
date and manner of his death, 224

Merx, 64, 71

Mill (J.S.), 28 sq, 204

Milman, 65

Ministry, the duration of our Lord's, 16 sq, 48, 131, 245 sq

Miracles, 26 sq

[Moesinger, 288]

Montanism;
its centre in Asia Minor, 219;
correspondence between the Churches of Asia and Gaul relating to, 253;
Irenaeus' mission to Rome respecting, 253, 259 n;
not referred to in the Ignatian Epistles, 85;
nor in the Epistle of Polycarp, 106;
opposed by Apollinaris, 238;
by Irenaeus, 267;
the question of the Canon involved in the controversy with, 219, 238, 267

Morality and dogma, 27 sq

Mosheim, 68

Mozley, 28

Muratori, 295 n

Muratorian Canon;
date, 188;
original language, 188 n;
English translation, 189 sq;
emendations in the text, 189 n;
represents the Church of Rome, 53, 270;
its evidence to St Mark's Gospel, 189, 205 sq;
to St Luke's Gospel, 189, 206;
to the Fourth Gospel, 52 sq, 91, 189 sq, 206, 216;
to four Gospels, 164, 188 sq, 205 sq, 270;
its testimony compared with that of Papias, 205 sq;
perhaps borrowed from him, 207;
Matthew Arnold's estimate of, 190 n

Naassenes, 161 n

Nature;
two meanings of the term, 29 sq;
its relation to a Personal God, 28 sq

Neander, 68, 69, 120 n, 141, 242

Neocoros, 300

Neubauer, 17 n, 133, 135, 136

Nicolaitans, 48, 182

Niebuhr, 25

Nolte, 211 n

Oecumenius, 201

Onesimus, the friend of Melito, 226

Ophites, 52, 161, 202, 219

Origen;
on Celsus, 7;
on the authorship of the Fourth Gospel, 216;
of the Apocalypse, 216;
uses the _Gospel according to the Hebrews_, 152 n;
quotes the Ignatian Epistles, 80, 82;
his accuracy in textual criticism, 269;
his use of the word 'oracles', 174

Otto, 223 n, 228 n, 229, 238 n, 241 n

Oudin, 67

Overbeck, 210, 213 n, 293 n

Owen, 67

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