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CHAP. I.

Giving a port View of the Editor'snew ‘Text, and the Principles onwhich it seems to have been com -pi I’d.

Begin with the Original or GreekText, corrected, as the Title-Page assures us, from the Authority of themost authentick Manuscripts ,• for thisis all the previous Account we haveof a Work of vast Difficulty in itself, and of thehighest Concern to the World. What, and howmany his Corrections have been, we are not told;nor which Manuscripts the Editor esteems mostauthentick j nor what Rules he has observed ingiving Preference to Readings vouched for byequal Authorities. To supply, as far as possible,these Defects, I have been at the Pains of colla-ting his Text with the Current Impressions, andI find that Things stand thus. Firsts That theEditor has corrected Mills s Text, which is theGround-work of this Edition, in about 7002 Places.