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A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays

A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays

Cassels, Walter R.

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Religion General General World History

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ISBN10: 115358770X
ISBN13: 9781153587709
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.24 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
Excerpt: ...briefly. Now either Dr. Westcott, whilst bringing a most serious charge against my work, based upon this one example, has actually not taken the trouble to examine my reference to pp. 121 ff., 136 f., and p. 50 ff., to which he would have found himself there directed, or he has acted towards me with a want of fairness which I venture to say he will be the first to regret, when he considers the facts. Would it be divined from the words opposite, and the sentence above, that Volkmar enters into an elaborate argument, extending over a dozen closely printed pages, to prove that Ignatius was not sent to Rome at all, but suffered martyrdom in Antioch itself on the 20th December, A.D. 115, probably as a sacrifice to the superstitious fury of the people against the Greek: atheoi, excited by the earthquake which occurred on the thirteenth of that month? I shall not here attempt to give even an epitome of the reasoning, as I shall presently reproduce some of the arguments of Volkmar and others in a more condensed and consecutive form. Ibid. Der Ursprung, p. 52 ff. Volkmar repeats the affirmations which he had fully argued in the above work and elsewhere. 2. Baur, _Ursprung d. Episc., Baur, Urspr. d. Episc., Tub. Tub. Zeitschr. 1838, ii. H. 3, Zeitschr._ 1838, H. 3, p. 149 f. p. 149 f. In this passage Baur discusses Baur enters into a long and minute generally the historical examination of the historical character of the martyrdom, which character of the martyrdom of he considers, as a whole, to be Ignatius, and of the Ignatian 'doubtful and incredible.' To Epistles, and pronounces the whole establish this result he notices to be fabulous, and more especially the relation of Christianity to the representation of his sentence the Empire in the time of Trajan, and martyr-journey to Rome. He which he regards as inconsistent shows that, while isolated cases of with the condemnation of Ignatius;...

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