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Rh edition, which is now published by the Messrs. Harper & Brothers. This opinion ripened into conviction by constant use, since 1870, of proof-sheets of this text, in my edition of Lange's "Commentary on John" (see the critical notes), in my exegetical lectures, and in my labours as a member of the Revision Committee.

Drs. Westcott and Hort are ranked in England among the best Greek and Biblical scholars of the age. Dr. Hort (educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge) is Hulsean Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge (since 1878). He is probably more familiar with the textual history of the Greek Testament than any other man living. He exerted great influence in the Revision Company on all matters of reading. His Two Dissertations on and on the Constantinopolitan Creed (1876) evince a rare degree of patristic learning and critical acumen.