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SAINT PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS

with Notes and Addenda

By

Brooke Foss Westcott, D.D., D.C.L.

Lord Bishop of Durham Canon of Peterborough and Westminster Regius Professor of Divinity, Cambridge

EDITORIAL NOTE

The materials for this edition of the Epistle to the Ephesians were left by my Father in a condition which called for very careful editing. This task I entrusted to my friend the Rev. J. M. Schulhof, M.A., of Clare College, Cambridge, Fellow of St Augustine's College, Canterbury, and sometime Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge: who has brought to bear on the work not only the loyal zeal of a very faithful disciple, who for long years has studied my Father's writings and, while it was still given, sat at his feet; but also a care and discrimination truly worthy of the best Cambridge traditions. To him all readers of the book will owe a deep debt of gratitude for the infinite pains that he has bestowed on this labour of love.

F. B. Westcott

PREFACE

A delay of four years—which have elapsed since the duty was committed to me of preparing for the press the late Bishop Westcott's work on the Epistle to the Ephesians—may be thought to demand some explanation.

My original mandate, as given by the Bishop's Executors, involved a twofold responsibility,—first that of editing the Commentary on the Epistle, left in manuscript by Dr Westcott, and secondly that of constructing, on the basis of such materials as might be found among his papers, an Introduction, and an Appendix of Essays and Additional Notes.

The former task appeared to present no other difficulties than those which attach to the determination, here and there, of the purport of an unfinished sentence, the treatment of an occasional lacuna in the notes, and the verification of references. But it was early interrupted, and for the space of some eighteen months, by the discovery that the notes on Chapter II were missing: a circumstance which was variously interpreted; one opinion, very confidently expressed, being that for some cause no notes had ever been written by Dr Westcott on that portion of the Epistle,—in other words, that the expected posthumous Commentary was after all in no sense complete. I make no apology for having obstinately resisted an urgent


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