He was assiduous in the study of the Sacred Scriptures and writings of the holy Fathers, especially the Epistles of St. Paul. It was from these that he drew his deep and triumphant eloquence. When he treated of the deformity of vice, the beauty of virtue, the necessity of penance, the ...
.14 It is here, for instance, that we find a reference to the abrogation of the Sabbath and the embracing of the Lord’s Day.15 However, one must distinguish between Judaism and the actual Jewish Scriptures, the latter of which Ignatius upholds when implying that both the Law and the ...