(b) The history of the text and of the principal schemes which have been proposed for restoring it to its primitive state, including recent views of Comparative Criticism.
(c) Considerations derived from the peculiar character and grammatical form of the dialect of the Greek Testament.
III. The application of the foregoing materials and principles to the investigation of the true reading in the chief passages of the New Testament, on which authorities are at variance.
In this edition, as has already been explained in the preface, it has been found necessary to divide the treatise into two volumes, which will contain respectively—
I. First Volume:—Ancient Manuscripts.
II. Second Volume:—Versions, Citations, Editions, Principles, and Selected Passages.
It will be found desirable to read the following pages in the order wherein they stand, although the chief part of Chapters VII-XIV of the first volume and some portions elsewhere (indicated by being printed like them in smaller type) are obviously intended chiefly for reference, or for less searching examination.