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LIBRARY THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA PRESENTED BY MRS. MACKINLEY HELM ' THE NEW TESTAMENT IX THE ORIGINAL GREEK THE TEXT REVISED BT BROOKE FOSS WESTCOTT, P.P. CAS03 OF PKTRRBOROrGIl, ASD RKGira PROFESSOR OF DIVIXITV, CAXBRIDGB AND FKNTON JolIX ANTHONY IIORT, D.D. BCL8KA5 raontSaOR OF DIVUfITT, CAJIBUOGB . t MKRICAN EDITION \V I 1 II .\ N" INTRODUCTION" BY PHILIP SCIIAFF, D.D., LL.D. FBOrBMOR IX TIIK fXloX THEOUK'.lr.U. 8RMIXARY, XEW YORK PRKUDEXT OF TUB AXKR1CA.X BIBLE KEVISIuS (.OMJIITTKK M:\V YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUAKK 1881 AL1ORUM LITTERAE SUNT EIUSMODI UT NOX PARl'M ML'LTOS PAENITUERIT INSUMPTAE IN ILLIS OPERAE A T FELIX ILLE QUEM Iff HISCE LITTERIS MEDITAKTEM MORS OCCUPAT. HAS IGITUR TOTO PECTORE SITIAMI'S OMNES, HAS AMPLECTAMUR, IN HIS IUCITER VERSE- ML'R, HAS EXOSCULEMUR, HIS DEMUM IMVORIAMUR , IN HAS TRANSFORMEMUR, QUAXDOQUIDEM ABEUNT STU DIA' IN MOKES. . . . HAE TIBI SACROSAXCTAE MENTIS 1LL1US I'll'AM REFER UNT 1MAGINEM, IPSUMQUE CHRIS- TUM LOQL'ENTEM, SANANTEM, MORIENTEM, RESURCEX- TEM, DENIQUE TOTUM ITA PRAESENTEM REDDUXT, UT MINUS VISVRUS SIS SI CORAM OCULIS CONSPICIAS. ERASMUS MDXVI Copy right, 1W1, by IUEI-LE & DEOTIIEBS (IKN'KIJAL CONTKNTS. INTRODUCTION TO THE AMERICAN EDITION THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW ........... 3 ACCORDING TO MARK ............ 72 ACCORDING TO LUKE ............ 11-1 ACCORDING TO JOHN ............ 187 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES ........ 245 THE CATHOLIC EPISTLES OF JAMES ................ 817 OF PETER I...... ........ 824 op PETER II............ .... Ml OF .Ii nix 1................. 886 OF JOHN II...... ....... 344 OF JOHN III.............. '.845 OF JUDE ................. 346 THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE ROMANS .............. 851 TO THE CORINTHIANS 1............ 878 TO THE CORINTHIANS II............ 408 TO THE GALATIANS ............. 420 TO THE EPHKSIANS ............. 429 TO THE PlIIMPPIANS ............ 438 TO THE COLOSWIANS ............. 445 TO THE THE88ALONIAN8 1........... 452 TO THE THES8ALONIAN8 II........... 458 TO THE HEBREWS ..... ...... 462 TO TIMOTHY 1............... 484 TO TIMOTHY II.............. 491 TO TITUS ....... .496 TO PHILEMON .......... ' . . . . 499 THE APOCALYPSE OF JOHN . 503 INTRODUCTION TO THE AMERICAN EDITION BT PHILIP SCHAFF CONTENTS OF TIIE INTRODUCTION TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. MERITS OF THE EDITION I.ITKRATURK I. SOURCES OF THE GREEK TEXT OF THE NEW TES TAMEXT 1. TIIK GREEK MANUSCRIPTS A. Uncial Manuscripts II. Cursive Manuscripts TUB ANCIKNT VERSIONS . A. Syriac Versions . . B. Latin Versions . . C. ^thiopic Version . D. Old Egyptian, or Cop- tic, Versions . . . E. Gothic Version . . F. Armenian Version . :t. PATRISTIC QUOTATIONS . A. Greek Fathers B. Latin Fathers xii xiii Tuge 4. CLASSES OF VARIATIONS . Iviii Omissions Iviii Additions Iviii Substitutions ... Ixii 5. OBJECT OF CRITICISM . . Ixii C. RULES OF CRITICISM . Ixiii 7. APPLICATION OF THE RULES Ixiv xxxii III. THE PRINTED EDITIONS OF THE GREEK TEXT conri xxxvii xl xlvi xlvi xlviii xlix xlix 1 li II THE VARIATIONS AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM . lii 1. ORIGIN or VARIATIONS . i NrxsiR OP VARIATIONS 3. VALCI or VARIATIONS . 1. FIRST PERIOD: THE TFX- TUS RECEPTUS. FROM ERASMUS AND BEZA TO BESGEL AND WKTSTEIN, A.D. 1510-1750 . Ixvi 2. SECOXD I'ERIOD: TRANSI- TIOH FROM THE TEXTU8 RECEPTUS TO THE UNCIAL TKXT. FKOM GRIESBACH TO LACIIMAXN, A. D. 1770- 1830 Ixxviii :!. THIRD PKRIOD: THE PRIM- ITIVH TEXT. FROM LACH- MANX AND TlSCHENDORP TO WESTCOTT AXD HORT, A.D. 1830-1881 Ixxxi l.ii I.NUKX TO NOTATION Ixxxix INTRODUCTION TO 1 ill: AMERICAN EDITION. BY PHILIP SCIIAFF. Merits of the Edition. THE seventeenth day of May, 1881, marks an epoch in the history of the New Testament. It is the birthday both of the purest English translation and of the purest <im k tt-\t of that little book which contains the inspired message of God's wisdom and love to mankind, and which forms the highest standard of Christian faith and duty. The coincidence is remarkable. The original and the translation were matured during the same long period by harmonious, though independent, co-operation. The Edi- tors of the Greek text were members of the English NYw unit Company of Revisers; the Kngli>h :m<l Ameri- can Revisers had the confidential use of advanced proof- sheets of this edition of the Greek text as they proceeded, and their translation is perhaps more nearly conformed to it than to any other printed edition from Krasmus and i down to Tischcndorf and Tivgclles. The Textus Receptut, so called, was announced to the world by the Leydcn publishers in 1633, with the bold