American scholars have counted the number of words in the Greek N.T. In Matthew the number is 18,222, in Mark 11,158, in Luke 19,209. Unfortunately, I am unable to give the total number in the N.T. See Schaff’s _Companion_, pp. 57, 176. Graux (_Revue de Philologie_, ii.) has counted not only the words but the letters in the various books. The numbers are given in Zahn’s _Geschichte des N.T. Kanons_, i. 76. They are as follows:— Letters. Stichoi. Matthew, 89,295 2480 Mark, 55,550 1543 Luke, 97,714 2714 John, 70,210 1950 Acts, 94,000 2610 3 John, 1,100 31 Apocalypse, 46,500 1292 For Philemon, Zahn 1,567 44 gives In this last epistle I find that my edition has 1538 letters, or including the title 1550. The lines in my edition happen to coincide as near as may be with the ancient stichoi. 41 stichoi at 36 letters to the stichos would give a total of 1476. Now in the 41 complete lines which my edition gives to Philemon I find 1469 letters, that is, only 7 fewer. In Jude, again, Graux enumerates 71 stichoi, while my edition shows exactly 70 lines or 71 with the title. For stichometric calculations, therefore, this edition will prove very convenient. For a “Table of Ancient and Modern Divisions of the New Testament,” see Scrivener, i. 68; also Westcott, _Canon_, Appendix D, xix., xx.; _Bible in the Church_, Appendix B, 4. [Sidenote: Cola and commata.] The Cola and Commata were quite different from the stichoi. The length of the latter was regulated according to the space (space-lines), that of the former by the sense and structure of the sentence (sense-lines). On cola and commata see Wordsworth and White, _De colis et commatibus codicis Amiatini et editionis nostrae_, in the _Epilogus_ to their edition of the Vulgate, i. pp. 733-736. On the stichometry proper see _Ibid._, p. 736, _De stichorum numeris in euangeliis_. Manuscripts de luxe.