8. “To refer on the part of each Company, when considered desirable, to Divines, Scholars, and Literary Men, whether at home or abroad, for their opinions.” To these it was added, that the work of each Company be communicated to the other as it is completed, in order that there may be as little deviation from uniformity in language as possible. Of the Scholars invited to join the Companies four[107] declined for various reasons, and one[108] was prevented by illness from taking part in the work. The two Companies when formed consisted of the following Members. THE OLD TESTAMENT COMPANY. Dr. W. L. Alexander, Professor of Theology in the Congregational Theological Hall, Edinburgh. Dr. E. H. Browne, Bishop of Ely.[109] Mr. O. T. Chenery, Lord Almoner’s Professor of Arabic, Oxford. Dr. A. B. Davidson, Professor of Hebrew, Free Church College, Edinburgh. Dr. Benjamin Davies, Professor of Hebrew, Baptist College, Regent’s Park. Dr. P. Fairbairn, Principal of Free Church College, Glasgow. Dr. F. Field. Dr. Ginsburg. Dr. F. W. Gotch, Principal of the Baptist College, Bristol. Rev. B. Harrison, Archdeacon of Maidstone. Dr. A. C. Hervey, Bishop of Bath and Wells. Dr. J. Jebb, Canon of Hereford. Dr. W. Kay, late Principal of Bishop’s College, Calcutta. Dr. Stanley Leathes, Professor of Hebrew, King’s College, London. Rev. J. McGill, Professor of Oriental Languages, St. Andrews. Dr. A. Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff. Dr. R Payne Smith, Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford.[110] Dr. J. J. S. Perowne, Professor of Hebrew, St. Davids College, Lampeter.[111] Rev. E. H. Plumptre,[112] Professor of New Testament Exegesis, King’s College, London. Dr. H. J. Rose, Archdeacon of Bedford. Dr. W. Selwyn, Canon of Ely, and Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, Cambridge. Dr. Connop Thirlwall, Bishop of St. Davids. Dr. Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln. Mr. W. A. Wright, Librarian[113] of Trinity College, Cambridge. THE NEW TESTAMENT COMPANY. Dr. H. Alford, Dean of Canterbury. Dr. J. Angus, Principal of the Baptist College, Regent’s Park. Dr. E. H. Bickersteth, Prolocutor of the Lower House of Convocation.[114] Dr. J. W. Blakesley, Canon of Canterbury.[115] Dr. J. Eadie, Professor of Biblical Literature and Exegesis to the United Presbyterian Church, Scotland. Dr. C. J. Ellicott, Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. Rev. F. J. A. Hort.[116] Rev. W. G. Humphry, Prebendary of St. Paul’s. Dr. B. H. Kennedy, Canon of Ely, and Regius Professor of Greek, Cambridge. Dr. W. Lee, Archdeacon of Dublin. Dr. J. B. Lightfoot.[117] Dr. W. Milligan, Professor of Divinity, Aberdeen. Dr. G. Moberly, Bishop of Salisbury. Rev. W. F. Moulton, Professor of Classics, Wesleyan College, Richmond.[118]