Reposted By Sam Shamoun (Original article 1, 2, 3)
These quotes are from Capturing Christianity’s response video to James White’s casting doubt on the existence of this holy Martyr and disciples of the beloved Apostles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tg4V70LcDo&t=30s.
Charles Gore (1900)
“[W]e cannot but congratulate ourselves that now for the third time in the history of literary controversy their genuineness [of Ignatius’ epistles] has been vindicated by an English scholar. It is perhaps too much to say that Dr. Lightfoot has now at last brought the controversy to an end.” (Charles Gore, The Church and the Ministry, 264-65, 1900)
B. H. Streeter (1929)
“The genuineness of the seven short letters written by Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, on his road to martyrdom in the Colosseum at Rome, was finally established by the monumental work of Lightfoot.” (B. H. Streeter, The Primitive Church, 279, 1929)
Stephen Neill & N. T. Wright (1988)
“Every elementary textbook of church history today takes for granted the authenticity of … the seven letters of Ignatius, and uses them as primary source material for the historicity of the sub-apostolic age.” (Stephen Neill & N. T. Wright, The Interpretation of the New Testament 1861-1986, 61, 1988)
Michael W. Holmes (2007)
“So thorough and persuasive was the work especially of Zahn and Lightfoot that the great majority of scholars since their day have considered the matter of authenticity as settled once and for all.” (Michael W. Holmes, The Apostolic Fathers, 172, 2007)
FURTHER READING
Ignatius of Antioch’s Proclamation of the Essential Deity of Christ
