51 Some understand by love in this passage, Christ Himself; others regard it as referring to the natural desires of the heart.

52 Comp. John iv. 14.

53 Some refer this to Ignatius himself.

54 Gal. ii. 20.

55 Ps. cxvi. 12.

56 Comp. 1 Cor. xv. 8, 9.

57 Some refer this to the jurisdiction of Ignatius.

58 i.e., the outward road he had to travel.

59 Or, "have sent me forward;" comp. Tit. iii.13.

60 Literally, "the name desired to me."

61 This clause is evidently an explanatory gloss which has crept into the text.

62 Literally, "the name desired to me."

1 Or, "inseparably."

2 Or, "inseparably."

3 Comp. Matt. vii. 25.

4 The bishop previously referred to.

5 Comp. Gal. i. 1.

6 Literally, "all."

7 Comp. Gal. i. 1.

8 Luke i. 6.

9 Comp. 2 Tim. iii. 6.

10 Jer. xxiii. 15.

11 Comp. Matt. vii. 15.

12 Comp. 2 Tim. iii. 6.

13 i.e., heretical.

14 2 Tim. ii. 26.

15 i.e., heretical.

16 Comp. Song of Sol. ii. 15.

17 Comp. 1 Cor. v. 11.

18 Deut. xiii. 6, 18.

19 Ps. cxix. 21.

20 1 Thess.iv. 5.

21 1 Tim. ii. 4.

22 Matt. v. 45.

23 Matt. v. 48.

24 Literally, "into."

25 Eph. iv. 5.