Just to make a record of issues related to the questionable books of Ignatius for the sake of a record and resource link on FR.
At the following link, anyone interested will see an analysis of more than any human might want to know about the issues surrounding the supposed letters of ignatius:
http://vridar.org/other-authors/roger-parvus-letters-supposedly-written-by-ignatius/
As a [very, very] short summary, here are just a few issues that remain unresolved about these writings...
Existence of a number of false letters
Existence of multiple versions of most letters
The original date before alteration is uncertain
Clearly the letters were modified, but we do not know by who or when or how many times
Lack of a Second Century witness to an Ignatius of Antioch
The historical likelihood that there was no actual Ignatius.
I will stop there. As I mentioned, the link has a twelve part series exploring deeply the problems, the author, the unusual beliefs, etc.
cc: daniel1212 - this link seems up your alley...
Ignatius - as scholars agree - existed and wrote the letters previously mentioned. You’ll just have to deal with that.
APU, a wonderful find. I had been looking for something similar a few weeks ago. Thanks so much for posting. I had never doubted the validity of the seven supposedly authenticated Ignatian epistles, but recently ran across the Schaff quote, and it struck me with some force how well it explained some of the more lonesome and anachronistic positions of those letters.
But again, thanks for these articles. I look forward to reading them.
Peace,
SR