This portion of my Greek Testament, completing the Gospels, reaches the hands of those Subscribers who, at their own desire, receive the work in portions, after much more delay than I could have wished.

In these Gospels I have had the advantage of using Card. Mai's edition of the Vatican MS., and in some part also the second edition of the same text, which is considerably amended: it was my intention to have given now a comparison of the text of that MS., as edited by Mai, with the preceding and somewhat contradictory collations. But as the MS. brought into notice by Tischendorf, the Codex Sinaiticus, is likely to be published without any great delay, I judge that it will be better for me to bring the addenda and corrigenda of importance into one list,instead of dealing with them piecemeal. Indeed, if I were now to say, such and such readings of B, as given by Mai, decide in favour of some reading, which I ought therefore to put into the text, I might find that the Codex Sinaiticus possesses sufficient weight to turn the doubtful scale. I therefore content myself, for the present, with noting such points for my own use, trusting that I may be able more completely to bring them forward at a proper time, for the use of students of the Word of God.