“ This edition of the Gospel of St. Matthew in West-Saxon is issued simultaneously with an edition of the Gospel of St. John of the same Version. In the case of the fourth Gospel, however, the text is accompanied by Notes and a Glossary. That such a difference should separate these two volumes that are to be held together as parts of the same edition of the Version is due to the circumstances of publication. The general editor of the series to which these volumes belong first requested an edition of the Gospel of St. ”