--The Afterlife--

[maintenanceman]

I’ll email you.

[davo]

Can you supply a link and or accurate reference to where this actual quote as you’ve given it above appears, thanks.

Yes, I can. If you look at Volume 1 of “The Ante-Nicene Fathers,” go to chapter 11, you will find it at the very beginning of the longer recension.

Alternatively, if you do not possess this volume, you can go to the following site and download volume 1, and then do a search for “before all ages.”

https://holybooks-lichtenbergpress.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/Ante-Nicene-Fathers-Vol-1.pdf

Thanks Paidion, it’s handy to be able to make comparison between the short recension and long recension… even though the long recension you reference above is considered spurious and a fraudulent interpolation from the 4th century — apparently ‘scholarship’ regards the middle recension as authentic, of which the short recension is considered an abridgement; interesting.

[Paidion]

Thanks Paidion, it’s handy to be able to make comparison between the short recension and long recension … even though the long recension you reference above is considered spurious and a fraudulent interpolation from the 4th century — apparently ‘scholarship’ regards the middle recension as authentic, of which the short recension is considered an abridgement; interesting.

You’re welcome. I haven’t run across a “middle recension”—as there is only long and short in the Ante-Nicene Fathers in Volume 1. Some scholars regard ALL of the writings ascribed to Ignatius as spurious. But many others believe that the following 8 are spurious and that the other 7 are genuine:
To the virgin Mary, to the apostle John (there are two), to Mary of Cassobelæ, to the Tarsians, to the Antiochians, to Hero, and to the Philippians.