The Letters of St. Ignatius of Antioch: Annotated with Biblical Cross-References

By Rutherford H Platt Jr. and J Alden Brett

"The documents in this book are the work of several accepted Christian apostles, and their theme is close to that of the New Testament, that is that Christ was the Son of God and that he died and rose to purge mankind of its sins. These ecclesiastical writings of early Christian authorities... were omitted from the authorized New Testament. They are published here as a matter of record... and are of great antiquity." Letters of St. Ignatius The original texts of six of the seven original letters are found in the Codex Mediceo Laurentianus, written in Greek in the 11th century (which also contains the pseudepigraphical letters of the Long Recension, except that to the Philippians), while the letter to the Romans is found in the Codex Colbertinus. Ignatius's letters bear signs of being written in great haste, such as run-on sentences and an unsystematic succession of thought. Ignatius modelled them after the biblical epistles of Paul, Peter, and John, quoting or paraphrasing these apostles' works freely. For example, in his letter to the Ephesians he quoted 1 Corinthians 1:18: Let my spirit be counted as nothing for the sake of the cross, which is a stumbling-block to those that do not believe, but to us salvation and life eternal. -- Letter to the Ephesians 18, Roberts and Donaldson translation[50] (from wikipedia)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DCD6FKT4
• ISBN13: 9798335098212
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 83 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"