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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