Excerpt from The First Epistle of St. Peter: The Greek d104 With Introductory Lecture, Commentary, and Additional Notes As soon as the plan was formed Dr Hort began to work at the Synoptic Gospels. Interesting discussions arose as to questions which would require to be dealt with in the Introduction, and the rough list which Dr Hort gives in a letter of December I 1th 1860 shews the large view which he took of the task committed to him'. Afterwards a joint volume of Essays suggested by Essays and Reviews was considered as preparatory to the Commentary 5, but the plan fell through under the pressure of other engage ments. Before very long Dr Hort turned from the Synoptic Gospels to the Catholic Epistles. In I 862 he was not without hopes of getting a volume containing St James, St Peter, and St Jude. 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.