In his book Which Bible? David Otis Fuller The King James Bible Old Testament was translated from the Ben Chayyim Masoretic Text named after Jacob ben Chayyim, under whose editorship it was printed in in 1524-5). Lucian's unrivalled success in verifying, safeguarding,Īnd transmitting those divine writings left a heritage for whichĪll generations should be thankful." (Ref: With philosophical speculations introducing casuistry and lying. Of the Bible a secure retreat for all errors, and deformed them Of the Alexandrian college, made his editions and commentaries To devastate both the Bible manuscripts and Bible theology. Of apostasy when a flood of depravations was systematically attempting
Neither Lucian nor Erasmus, but rather the apostles, None of Lucian's enemies fails to credit him with Too little known that the real editor of the Received Text was Testament from which the writings of the apostles in Greek haveīeen translated into English, German, Dutch and other languages.ĭuring the dark ages the Received Text was practically unknown That manuscript of the Greek New Testament sometimes called Textus "The Protestant denominations are built upon It is vitally important to understand why they Of Europe, they selected Textus Receptus as their foundation Translate the scriptures directly from Greek into the languages Of the 16 th and 17 th centuries decided to Was Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) one of the greatest Such as Lucian (AD 250-312), Erasmus, Stephanus,īeza and the Elzevir brothers to form the text knownĪs Textus Receptus, the name given to the Majority Text TheseĮxtant manuscripts (MSS) were brought together by various editors
Vast majority of manuscripts still in existence. Text or the Majority Text because it is based on the Received Text ( Textus Receptus), also called the Byzantine Foremost amongst these is the Traditional
Us first consider certain Greek texts from which all New Testament (KJV) and a few of the modern translations in use today, let File 3 of 7 Textus Receptusīefore we consider the King James Version A Voice In The Wilderness Vital Topics Booklet Index Part One.