Benjamin Sargent offers a detailed examination of the use of scriptural quotations and allusions in the letters of Ignatius, employing methods used in the study of the use of Scripture in the New Testament.He aims to define an Ignatian 'hermeneutic' whilst also using a more accurate picture of interpretation in Ignatius to consider its significance in early Christianity.Sargent first focuses on the seven letters of the middle recension, as well as the long ...