| 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., Tüb.
Tüb. 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