The well-known lexical and grammatical helps, including Grimm, Cremer, Winer, and Buttman, have been consulted. Frequent reference has been made to Burton’s Syntax of the Moods and Tenses in New Testament (T. & T. Clark, 1894), both because of its excellence and its accessibility to students.
A new edition of Winer’s Grammatik (the eighth) by Schmiedel is in course of publication; also of Kihner by Blass.
In the notes, the matter common to the three Gospels is most fully treated in Matthew, the notes in the other two Gospels being at these points supplementary and comparative.
The marginal references to passages of Scripture are simply supplementary to those in the notes.
It is hoped that most abbreviations used will need no special explanation, but the following table may be helpful :—
a Mt. = Matthew, ' Mk. = Mark.
Lk. = Luke.
O. T. = Old Testament
N. T. = New Testament. Sept. = Septuagint.
A. V. = Authorised Version. R. V. = Revised Version.
C. N. T. = Cambridge New Testament.
Tisch. = Tischendorf.
Treg. = Tregelles. W. H. = Westcott and Hort. Ws. = Weiss (Dr. Bernhard),
Egypt. = Egyptian versions (vis., the two following). Cop. = Coptic (called Memphitic by W. H.). Sah. = Sahidic (called Thebaic by W. H.). Syrr. = Syriac versions.
Pesh. = Peshito (= Syrian Vulgate).
Syr. Cur. = Curetonian Syriac. (For Greek equivalent vide Baeth gen’s Evangelienfragmente.)
Syr. Sin. = Sinaitic Syriac (recently discovered).
Latt. = Latin versions. Vulg. = Vulgate (Jerome's revision of old Latin version).
Vet. Lat. = Vetus Latina (Old Latin, referred to also as It. = Itala). The codices of the old Latin are distinguished by the letters a, b, ε, etc.
Adinusc. = Minusculi (Codices), anothe: name for cursives,