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The ensuing three Articles from the "Quarterly Review,"-(wrung out of me by the publication [May 17th, 1881] of the "Revision" of our "Authorized Version of the New Testament,")-appear in their present form in compliance with an amount of continuous solicitation that they should be separately published, which it would have been alike unreasonable and ungracious to disregard. I was not prepared for it. It has caused me-as letter after letter has reached my hands-mixed feelings; has revived all my original disinclination and regret. For, gratified as I cannot but feel by the reception my labours have met with, -(and only the Author of my being knows what an amount of antecedent toil is represented by the ensuing pages, )-I yet deplore more heartily than I am able to express, the injustice done to the cause of Truth by handling the subject in this fragmentary way, and by exhibiting the evidence for what is most certainly true, in such a very incomplete form. A systematic Treatise is the indispensable condition for securing cordial assent to the view for which I mainly contend.