Original (inglés)

By W. D. Killen, D.D. Professor of Ecclesiastical History, and Principal of the Presbyterian Theological Faculty, Ireland. "As the account of the martyrdom of Ignatius may be justly suspected, so, too, the letters which presuppose the correctness of this suspicious legend do not wear at all a stamp of a distinct individuality of character, and of a man of these times addressing his last words to the Churches." —