JOSEPH BARBER LIGHTFOOT, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D., LORD BISHOP OF DURHAM REPRINTED WITH AN ADDITIONAL APPENDIX ON THE PUBLISHED BY THE TRUSTEES of the LIGHTFOOT FUND London MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1891 All Rights reserved HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY Walter B. Briggs First Edition 1871 CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A. AND SONS, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. D URING the last summer, immediately before the Company appointed for the Revision of the English New Testament held its first sitting, I was invited to read a paper on the subject before a Clerical meeting. Finding that I had already written more than I could venture to read even to a very patient and considerate audience, and receiving a request from my hearers at the conclusion that the paper should be printed, I determined to revise the whole and make additions to it before publication. The result is the present volume. Owing to various interruptions its appearance has been delayed much longer than I had anticipated. This statement of facts was perhaps needed to justify the appearance of a book, which as occupying well-known ground cannot urge the plea of novelty, which has many imperfections in form, and which |