can edition, which is now published by the Messrs. Harper & Brothers.[1] This opinion ripened into conviction by constant use, since 1870, of proof-sheets of this text, in my edition of Lange's "Commentary on John" (see the critical notes), in my exegetical lectures, and in my labours as a member of the Revision Committee.
Drs. Westcott and Hort are ranked in England among the best Greek and Biblical scholars of the age. Dr. Hort (educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge) is Hulsean Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge (since 1878). He is probably more familiar with the textual history of the Greek Testament than any other man living. He exerted great influence in the Revision Company on all matters of reading. His Two Dissertations on μονογενὴς Θεός and on the Constantinopolitan Creed (1876) evince a rare degree of patristic learning and critical acumen.
- ↑ The letter of the Messrs. Harper, in which they accepted my proposition, is dated May 17, 1871, on the same day of the same month on which the book was published ten years afterwards in London. But as Westcott and Hort did not contemplate a critical apparatus below the text, I made subsequently an agreement with my friend, Prof. Tischendorf, for the preparation of an American edition containing his own latest text with a very brief digest of his critical apparatus (somewhat similar to his editio critica minor, only more condensed, and confined to the oldest readings) for the use of students; thinking that there would be room for two editions, each having its special merits. Tischendorf actually began the work in 1873, and several sheets were set up at Leipsic when his death, in December 1874 ended his earthly labours, preventing him from even preparing the Prolegomena to his eighth critical edition. I know of no scholars who could better carry out the plan of such an edition than Prof. Dr. Ezra Abbot in Cambridge, Mass., and Dr. Caspar René Gregory in Leipsic.
