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The following variations of the Greek could scarcely be represented in our English versions: Acts vii. 26 & xv. 32. τε Compl., Erasm., Steph. δὲ Beza. xix. 27. μέλλειν δὲ Compl., Erasm. 1516, Steph. μέλλειν τε Erasm. 1519, Beza. xxvii. 3. πρὸς τοὺς φίλους Compl., Erasm.: τοὺς omitted by Stephens and Beza. 1 Cor. vii. 5. συνέρχησθε Compl., Erasm., Steph., Beza 1565, 1589: συνέρχεσθε Beza 1598, Vulg., Tyndale 1534 (perhaps also 1526), Great Bible, Geneva 1557, Bishops’. See Introd. p. xlii. 2 Thess. ii. 4. “all that is called God” is the rendering of all our versions from Tyndale downwards, or it might be thought to represent Beza’s conjectural reading πᾶν τὸ for πάντα. Rev. iv. 10. Since all read πεσοῦνται, no stress can be laid on the variation between the present and future in the verbs that follow. x. 7. τελεσθῇ Compl., Erasm., Steph., Beza 1565, “shall be finished” other English versions after Vulg. But Beza’s last three editions have τελεσθήσεται, which ill suits “should be finished” of the Authorized.

Postscript on note 1, page xix.

His Grace the Archbishop has permitted the editor to search for himself the Records of the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury, with the following results. No trace of any synodical action about a new edition of the Bible in 1699 now remains either in the Registers or in the Schedules, which for that year are not complete. Those for 1703 (the year ending on March 24) are all preserved, and in a long list of Gravamina, brought to the Upper House on Feb. 11, 1703/4, as “The humble representation of the Lower House,” one article declares “That in some late editions of the Holy Bible and of the Liturgy of the Church of England, several gross errors have been committed.” The temper of the whole document, as well as the express testimony of Lewis, renders it likely that the complaint was aimed chiefly at Lloyd’s edition by men willing enough to wound, but half afraid to strike.