guidance he can always refer to the published views of the scholars above named or others.
But in so far as the parallel presentation of the canonical and patristic texts may be held to imply the view, that the Epistle was known to and used by the early Christian witnesses adduced, the section, thus regarded, has Dr Westcott's authority: all the patristic passages given being cited in the footnotes and appendix to his History of the Canon; of which, therefore, this section may be accounted an excerpt printed in extenso.
The Section Internal Evidence of Authorship is made up almost entirely of matter drawn from Dr Hort's Prolegomena , and arranged under the subdivisions adopted in the Abstract of Lectures on Ephesians printed at the end of that volume.
In view of the long and memorable service of collaboration which has linked together indissolubly the names of Westcott and of Hort, it will, I hope, be felt to be fitting that where in this Epistle the one is silent and the other happily has left a record, already published, of his conclusions, appeal should be made to the latter to supplement the unfinished work, now edited, of the former.
With regard to the Section Style and Language I regret that, owing to an error of marking on my part, the fragmentary notes left by Dr Westcott appear in smaller, instead of in larger, type than the lexical statistics appended. The oversight, however, when discovered, did not seem to me of sufficiently grave importance to demand correction, which would have meant disturbance of several pages of proof.
The three following Sections on the relation of this Epistle to the Colossian Letter, to other Pauline documents, and to certain other, non-Pauline, Apostolic writings respectively, will, I think, speak for themselves.
The References to the Gospel History constituting the tenth Section are Dr Westcott's own.
For Section XI, Characteristics of the Epistle, I have ventured to bring together the judgments of four writers, all sometime (and at the same time) Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, namely, Dr Westcott himself, and his three lifelong friends, Bishop Lightfoot, Dr Hort, and Dr Llewelyn Davies of whom now the last alone survives.
The twelfth and last Section, exhibiting the Plan of the Epistle, is, again, Dr Westcott's own, and is printed exactly as it stands in his manuscript.
The Text of the Epistle is reprinted from the last edition of Westcott and Hort's New Testament.
The few critical notes are gathered mainly from the Notes on Select Readings in the Appendix to Westcott and Hort's Introduction ; a small residue being adapted from Dr Sanday's Delectus Lectionum in the Clarendon Press Appendices ad Novum Testamentum , or from Tregelles's Apparatus Criticus.
One note, partly critical, partly exegetical (on Eph. 4:21), is taken, at the instance and by the kind cooperation of Dr Murray, Warden of St Augustine's College, Canterbury, from the private correspondence of Dr Westcott with Dr Hort.
After the Greek Text and Notes, and before the Appendix, I have printed the texts of the Latin Vulgate version of the Epistle and of two early English versions, namely, those of Wiclif, as revised by Purvey ( c. 1386), and of Tyndale (1525).
The English versions will, I think, be felt to be an appropriate addition to a volume containing the latest exegetical labours of a theologian who is also the author of the History of the English Bible. Both versions are reprinted from Messrs Bagster's English Hexapla, and as regards the earlier I have ventured, for the sake of brevity, to retain in the title-heading the inexact description, Wiclif, 1380, although