“Judaism” from the OT and thoroughly Christianizes the prophets (see on Mag. 8–10). And having lost vital interest in eschatology except in individual terms he thinks almost exclusively of the destiny of an idealized church as he looks to the future. Ignatius’ doctrine of the incarnation deepens the sense of God’s involvement in the phenomenal world and the significance of what is done by human beings in the sphere of the flesh, but it also narrows the historical arena of divine activity and emphatically