Recent studies of the letters of Ignatius of Antioch have helpfully located seventeenth-century Ignatian scholarship in its ecclesial and political context. Of particular importance, these new works have demonstrated that seventeenth-century British analysis of the genuineness of Ignatius's letters coincided with debates about British ecclesial government and the English Civil War. This essay contributes to such studies by expanding the discussion in three ways. The first two ways extend the study of Ignatian reception backward from the seventeenth century. First, the article observes that the study of the middle recension (the earliest form of Ignatius's letters) can be found in late medieval English theological writings and manuscripts. Second, it addresses how, simultaneously, four Ignatian letters which record a correspondence between Ignatius, John the Elder, and the Virgin Mary were read in Britain. These letters highlight Ignatius's piety and apostolic links. Finally, this essay widens the scholarly narrative of seventeenth-century Ignatian studies by observing that seventeenth-century interpreters drew on late medieval citations of Ignatius and that they were concerned with Ignatius's piety as well as the interpretive puzzles in his letters.

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扩展叙述：在英国接受安提阿的伊格内修斯，约。1200–1700

最近对安提阿依纳爵书信的研究有助于将 17 世纪依纳爵的学术置于其教会和政治背景中。特别重要的是，这些新作品表明，17 世纪英国对伊格内修斯信件真实性的分析与关于英国教会政府和英国内战的争论不谋而合。本文通过三种方式扩展讨论，为此类研究做出了贡献。前两种方式将 Ignatian 接受的研究从 17 世纪向后延伸。首先，文章观察到对中间修订（伊格内修斯书信的最早形式）的研究可以在中世纪晚期的英语神学著作和手稿中找到。其次，它解决了如何同时，四封记录伊格内修斯、长老约翰和圣母玛利亚之间通信的伊格纳修斯信件在英国被阅读。这些信件突出了伊格内修斯的虔诚和使徒的联系。最后，这篇文章通过观察 17 世纪的解释者借鉴了中世纪晚期对伊格内修斯的引用，并且他们关注伊格内修斯的虔诚以及他信件中的解释难题，从而拓宽了 17 世纪伊格内修斯研究的学术叙述。