London: : C. J. CLAY AND SONS, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE, AVE MARIA LANE. Glasgow: 263, ARGYLE STREET. Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS. New York: MACMILLAN AND CO. Schools and Colleges GENERAL EDITOR:-J. ARMITAGE ROBINSON B.D. THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF ST JAMES WITH NOTES AND INTRODUCTION BY THE REV. ARTHUR CARR M.A. VICAR OF ADDINGTON SURREY FORMERLY FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE OXFORD EDITED FOR THE SYNDICS OF THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1896 [All Rights reserved.] 531 ensg James 1896 PREFACE BY THE GENERAL EDITOR. THE Greek Text upon which the Commentaries in this Series are based has been formed on the following principles: Wherever the texts of Tischendorf and Tregelles agree, their readings are followed: wherever they differ from each other, but neither of them agrees with the Received Text as printed by Scrivener, the consensus of Lachmann with either is taken in preference to the Received Text: in all other cases the Received Text as printed by Scrivener is followed. It must be added, however, that in the Gospels those alternative readings of Tregelles, which subsequently proved to have the support of the Sinaitic Codex, have been considered as of the same authority as readings which Tregelles has adopted in his text. In the Commentaries an endeavour has been made to explain the uses of words and the methods of con |