[Polycarp] ... schrieb ...' | regard to the latter that, if
| [Polycarp] died in A.D. 167 in his
| 86th year, and Ignatius wrote to him
| as already Bishop of Smyrna in A.D.
| 116, he must have become bishop at
| least in his 35th year, and
| continued so for upwards of half
| a century. The inference is clear
| that if Ignatius died so much
| earlier as A.D. 107 it involves
| the still greater improbability
| that Polycarp must have become
| Bishop of Smyrna at latest in his
| 26th year, which is scarcely to be
| maintained, and the later date is
| thus obviously supported.
|
| (Ibid. _Gesch. christl. Kirche_,
| i. p. 440, Anm. 1.)
|
| Baur supports the assertion that
| Ignatius suffered martyrdom in
| Antioch, A.D. 115.
|
"2. Bretschneider, _Probabilia_, x. | The same.
p. 185. 'Pergamus ad Ignatium '_qui |
circa annum cxvi obiisse dicitur_.' |
|
"3. Bleek, _Einl. N.T._ p. 144 | Bleek, _Einl. N.T._ p. 144.
[p. 142 ed. 1862] '... In den |