A COMPLETE COLLECTION

OF THE

IGNATIAN EPISTLES,

GENUINE, INTERPOLATED, AND SPURIOUS;

TOGETHER WITH NUMEROUS EXTRACTS FROM THEM,

AS QUOTED BY ECCLESIASTICAL WRITERS DOWN TO THE TENTH CENTURY;

IN SYRIAC, GREEK, AND LATIN:

AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE SYRIAC TEXT,

COPIOUS NOTES, AND INTRODUCTION,

BY

WILLIAM CURETON, M. A. F.R.S.

CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.

LONDON:

FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE.

M DCCC XLIX.

LONDON

W. WATTS, PRINTER, CROWN COURT, TEMPLE BAR.

603.5 I 14.1 18490 Cop 1

TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE ALBERT

OF SAXE COBURG AND GOTHA, K.G.

Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

SIR,

I ESTEEM it a peculiar happiness that my own humble researches should have been rewarded by a discovery which seems to throw a clearer light upon the writings of one of the companions of the holy Apostles, than the united labors of several of the highest and most distinguished Prelates who have adorned the English Church;

And in being permitted to inscribe to your Royal Highness these results of my discovery, I enjoy a very rare and high gratification, such as