Greek New Testament (Novum Testamentum Graece)

VI

-- PREFACE.

Therefore, I shall set forth what system of recension and law has been adopted in this edition:

The following have been collated:

1. The original Complutensian edition.

2. The original 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th editions of Erasmus of Rotterdam.

3. Robert Estienne, with the preface: O mirificam ..... Paris 1546. 16°.

4. Christ. Frid. von Matthaei. Wittenberg 1803--1807. 2nd edition.

5. New Testament in Greek, from the recension of J. J. Griesbach with a selection of textual variety. Leipzig 1805. (manual edition).

Regarding the Greek text accepted in this my recension, it must be noted:

a) that the text is accepted fundamentally from the 5th edition of Erasmus, and indeed with preference given to it in places where all the above-named editions vary in the text from this 5th edition of Erasmus.

b) The binary text agreeing with itself, namely the Complutensian and that of the 5th Erasmian edition—which usually agrees almost entirely—has always been accepted, without any account taken of more recent critical text.

c) With the two above-named texts disagreeing, one or the other was accepted, in favor of which stood the authority of the text accepted by Griesbach, according to his aforementioned manual edition.

d) The text of Robert Estienne and D. Matthaei did not admit any other moment of decision for my recension,