Excerpt from The Revisers and the Greek Text of the New Testament This edition of Stephanus' leads us another step backward to the fourth and best1 edition of Erasmus, published in 1527; and this again to his first edition, published in 1516, which has the distinction of being the first published (though not the first printed 2) edition of the New Testament in Greek. 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.