As the result of this discovery, Cureton published in 1S45 a work, entitled, The Ancient Syriac
Version of the Epistles of St. Ignatius to St. Polycarp, the Ephesians, and the Romans, etc., in
which he argued that these Epistles represented more accurately than any formerly published what
Ignatius had actually \\Titten. This, of course, opened up the controversy afresh. While some
accepted the views of Cureton, others very strenuously opposed them. Among the former was