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Excerpt from A Grammar of New Testament Greek, Vol. 1 The title-page of the present volume claims for it connexion with a book which for thirty-five years has been in constant use among New Testament students in this country and elsewhere. The reader may therefore reasonably demand some explanation, when he turns over these pages and finds a wholly new book, widely differing from the great predecessor the name of which is thus boldly appropriated. He will bear with me if I enter briefly into the history of the undertaking, and explain the motives and objects which have prompted my treatment of a work on which the hands of innovation should not be rashly laid. It is now forty years since my father, to whose memory this book is dedicated, was invited by Messrs T. & T. Clark to translate and edit G.B. Winer's epoch-making Grammatik des neutestamentlichen Sprachidioms. The proposal originated with Bishop Ellicott, afterwards Chairman of the New Testament Revision Company, and the last survivor of a band of workers who, while the following pages were in the press, became united once more. Dr Ellicott had been in correspondence on biblical matters with the young Assistant Tutor at the Wesleyan Theological College, Richmond; and his estimate of his powers was shown first by the proposal as to Winer, and not long after by the Bishop's large use of my father's advice in selecting new members of the Revision Company. Mr Moulton took his place in the Jerusalem Chamber in 1870, the youngest member of the Company; and in the same year his edition of Winer appeared. My brother's Life of our father (Isbister, 1899) gives an account of its reception. It would not be seemly for me to enlarge on its merits, and it would be as superfluous as unbecoming. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.