E-text of 1886 "Reply to The Right Rev. Dr. Lightfoot" by W. D. Killen, Irish presbyterian, proposing that the epistles were third-century forgeries promoting the monoepiscopate system.

Biographical notes and extensive introduction to the history of criticism of the letters.

Information on the Syriac version of three of St. Ignatius of Antioch's letters.

American revision by A. Cleveland Coxe, of the original introductory notice, gives information on the genuine and spurious epistles, the shorter and longer Greek versions, and the discovery in 1842 of Syriac versions of three of the genuine epistles.