The Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians (often abbreviated Ign. Eph.) is an epistle attributed to Ignatius of Antioch, a second-century bishop of Antioch, and addressed to the church in Ephesus of Asia Minor. It was written during Ignatius' transport from Antioch to his execution in Rome
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10/18/2020 2:45:12 AM PDT by
Cronos
To: Cronos
The system of chapters used today is usually credited to Stephen Langton, who served as Archbishop of Canterbury in the early 1200s, and their first use was in copies of the Latin Vulgate version. A 14th-century rabbi, Solomon ben Ishmael, seems to have adapted Langtons chapter divisions for use in Hebrew Bibles, complementing the existing verse divisions in the Masoretic Text. New Testament verse divisions seem to have been introduced by Robert Estienne in the 1550s. So the text is suspect because of all the verse references, not used in the 2nd century.
The doctrine of the continued virginity of Mary were established by the 19th and 20th Popes in the last century. The first prayer to Mary is around AD 250. So the text is even more suspect.
If the text was from the 2nd century the perpetual virginity of Mary would have been doctrine much earlier.
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10/18/2020 6:31:16 AM PDT by
CptnObvious
(Question her now.)
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