scholarship. If Daille must be placed in the second rank, surely
Pearson may well be relegated to the same position; for there is
most respectable proof that his _Vindiciae_, in reply to the
treatise of the French divine, was pronounced by Porson to be a
"very unsatisfactory" performance. [8:2] "The most elaborate and
ingenious portion of the work" is, as Bishop Lightfoot himself
confesses, "the least satisfactory." [8:3] Dr. Lightfoot, we
believe, will hardly pretend to say that Vossius, Bull, and
Waterland stand higher in the literary world than Salmasius, John
Milton, and Augustus Neander; and he will greatly astonish those
who are acquainted with the history and writings of one of the
fathers of the Reformation, if he will contend that John Calvin
must be placed only in the second or third class of Protestant
theologians. In the presence of the great doctor of Geneva,
Hammond, Grotius, Zahn, and others whom Dr. Lightfoot has named as
his supporters, may well hide their diminished heads.

In the work before us the Bishop of Durham has pretty closely
followed Pearson, quoting his explanations and repeating his
arguments. Some of these are sufficiently nebulous. Professor
Harnack--who has already reviewed his pages in the _Expositor_,
and who, to a great extent, adheres to the views which they
propound--admits, notwithstanding, that he has "overstrained" his
case, and has adduced as witnesses writers of the second and third
centuries of whom it is impossible to prove that they knew
anything of the letters attributed to Ignatius. [9:1] As a
specimen of the depositions which Dr. Lightfoot has pressed into
his service, we may refer to the case of Lucian. That author wrote
about sixty years after the alleged date of the martyrdom of
Ignatius, and his Lordship imagines that in one of his works he