Greek New Testament (Novum Testamentum Graece)

VII

PREFACE.

other than that their reading, which disagrees with the text of my recension, should be noted below.

e) All the readings, therefore, of all other editions named by me above, which, and insofar as, they disagree with the text of this my recension, are found noted below; and where no variant reading of any of those editions is found noted below, there the consensus of the texts stands.

In this my recension, therefore, either in the text or below the text, the following are available to be found:

1. the Complutensian text,
2. the text accepted in the five editions of Erasmus,
3. the text accepted by Rob. Estienne,
4. the text accepted by D. Matthaei,
5. the text accepted by Griesbach,

and indeed in such a concise, contracted, and easily inspected manner, that no other previous edition has existed which has rendered itself more useful, as much for the manual convenience of students as for the use of sacred criticism—even if not in the broader sense, at least with respect to the texts of the above-mentioned highly celebrated editions.

The reason that further moved me, and others, was to offer to our students of the sacred letters the double text approved in the Complutensian and in the editions of Erasmus by Pope Leo X! The Latin text placed opposite is that genuine one of the Vulgate edition, according to the exemplar from the Apostolic Vatican Press, Rome 1592, in which the corrections made from the Roman corrective index are indicated, and also readings varying in the copies published by the Vatican Press in the years 1590, 1592, 1593, and 1598 are placed below the text, and there have been added