I have used a certain amount of discretion and economy in avoiding as a rule the works of previous apologists (such as Semisch, Riggenbach, Norton, Hofstede de Groot) and consulting rather those of an opposite school in such representatives as Hilgenfeld and Volkmar.

In this way, though I may very possibly have omitted some arguments which may be sound, I hope I shall have put forward few that have been already tried and found wanting.
As I have made rather large use of the argument supplied by text- criticism, I should perhaps say that to the best of my belief my attention was first drawn to its importance by a note in Dr.Lightfoot's work on Revision.

The evidence adduced under this head will be found, I believe, to be independent of any particular theory of text-criticism.
The idea of the Analytical Index is taken, with some change of plan, from Volkmar.

It may serve to give a sort of _coup d'oeil_ of the subject.
It is a pleasure to be able to mention another form of assistance from which it is one of the misfortunes of an anonymous writer to find himself cut off.

The proofs of this book have been seen in their passage through the press by my friend the Rev.A.J.