The Revelation exhibited unto 1St. John upon the Lords day; is by Irenaeus (in his fifth book) referred unto the Empire of Domitian, or, as S. Hierome in his Catalogue more particularly doth express it, to the fourth year of his Reign: Which answereth partly to the forty ninth, and partly to the ninety fifth year of our Lord, according to our vulgar computation; and was but eleven or twelve years before the time, when Ignatius did write his Epistles. Of whom then should we more certainly learn, what the Apostle meant by the Lords day, then from Ignatius? who was by the Apostles 2themselves ordained Bishop of that Church, wherein the Disciples were first called Christians; ⟨p. 84⟩and in his Epistle to the Magnesians clearly maketh the Lords day to be a weekly holy day, observed by Christians, in the room of the abrogated Sabbath of the Jews: than which, can we desire more? But here you are to know, beside the common edition, wherein the genuine Epistles of Ignatius are foully depraved by a number of beggarly patches added unto his purple by later hands; there is an ancient Latin translation to be found in the Library of Caius College in Cambridge; which, although it be very rude, and corrupt both in many other, and in this very same place also of the Epistle to the Magnesians; yet is it free from these additaments, and in many respects to be preferred before the common Greek Copy, as well because it agreeth with the Citations of Eusebius, Athanasius, and Theodoret, and hath the sentences vouched by them out of Ignatius (and particularly that of the Eucharist, in the Epistle to the Smyrnians) ⟨p. 85⟩which are not at all to be found in our Greek; and hath in a manner none of all those places in the true Epistles of Ignatius, against which exception hath been taken by our Divines: which addeth great strength to those exceptions of theirs, and showeth that they were not made without good cause. Now in this Translation there is nothing to be found touching the Sabbath, and the Lords day in the Epistle to the Magnesians, but these words only. Non ampliùs sabbatizantes, sed secundùm Dominicam viventes, in quâ, & vita nostra orta est; whereunto these of our common Greek may be made answerable. [Greek or Hebrew] a[Greek or Hebrew]. all those other words alleged by Dr. Heylin, (part. 2. pag. 43.)
The Revelation exhibited unto 1St. John upon the Lords day; is by Irenaeus (in his fifth book) referred unto the Empire of Domitian, or, as S. Hierome in his Catalogue more particularly doth expresse it, to the fourth yeare of his Reigne: Which answereth partly to the forty ninth, and partly to the ninty fifth year of our Lord, according to our vulgar computation; and was but eleven or twelve yeares before the time, when Ignatius did write his Epistles. Of whom then should we more certainly learn, what the Apostle meant by the Lords day, then from Ignatius? who was by the Apostles 2themselves ordained Bishop of that Church, wherein the Disciples were first called Christians; ⟨p. 84⟩and in his Epistle to the Magnesians clearly maketh the Lords day to be a weekly holy day, observed by Christians, in the room of the abrogated Sabbath of the Jews: than which, can we desire more? But here you are to know, beside the common edition, wherein the genuine Epistles of Ignatius are fouly depraved by a number of beggarly patches added unto his purple by later hands; there is an ancient Latine translation to bee found in the Library of Caies Colledge in Cambridge; which, although it be very rude, and corrupt both in many other, and in this very same place also of the Epistle to the Magnesians; yet is it free from these additaments, and in many respects to be preferred before the common Greek Copy, as well because it agreeth with the Citations of Eusebius, Athanasius, and Theodoret, and hath the sentences vouched by them out of Ignatius (and particularly that of the Eucharist, in the Epistle to the Smyrnians) ⟨p. 85⟩which are not at all to be found in our Greek; and hath in a manner none of all those places in the true Epistles of Ignatius, against which exception hath been taken by our Divines: which addeth great strength to those exceptions of theirs, and sheweth that they were not made without good cause. Now in this Translation there is nothing to be found touching the Sabbath, and the Lords day in the Epistle to the Magnesians, but these words only. Non ampliùs sabbatizantes, sed secundùm Dominicam viventes, in quâ, & vita nostra orta est; whereunto these of our common Greeke may be made answerable. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 a〈non-Latin alphabet〉. all those other words alleadged by Dr. Heylin, (part. 2. pag. 43.)
- 1Revel. 7. 10.
- 2Acts 11. 26.
- aIt may be the three first sill ables of this word were wanting in the Greek Copy, which the Translator used; & thence came his viventes.It may be the three first syll ables of this word were wanting in the Greek Copy, which the Translator used; & thence came his viventes.
