PREFACE OF THE NEW EDITOR.

The arguments which we have placed before each epistle were supplied by Ruhkopf.

We shall refrain from setting forth the method which each of the above-mentioned editors held in recognizing, correcting, or illustrating these Epistles; it seemed better to introduce the men themselves speaking and to insert their prefaces in their entirety. It will be necessary to read the preface of J. Schweighäuser first, if you wish to understand his critical notes and the shorter symbols by which the manuscripts are indicated in his work.

Furthermore, we have maintained our custom of illustrating those passages—of which there are quite a few—that previous writers of commentaries had left obscure, either because they wrongly disdained to explain them or because they despaired of doing so unsuccessfully.