This Bible version is now Public Domain due to copyright expiration. They are NOTHING when we look at the nearly 6,000 differences, many being quite substantial between the Alexandrian Critical Text and the Textus Receptus. Oh. he likes Ants, yes Ants! A textual critic is one who picks and chooses what part of whose story they will believe to be true. To Westcott and Hort, the King James Bible was clearly an inferior translation. The Sahidic and Bohairic versions frequently contain typically Alexandrian readings . SCROLL THROUGH DIFFERENT CATEGORIES BELOW. They were known to be the chief architects of the critical theory which resulted in the revised Greek Testament which has replaced the Textus Receptus (TR) or Received Text. You are teaching doctrines of devils. Westcott & Hort in their day, and others from that period, as well as scholars today, serve us and God well in what they provide. Almost all Catholic priests were biblically illiterate, so one wonders who these so-called true believers were and how were they reading Gods Word to the point of wearing it out. I no. First, and most importantly, notice that the quote had wantof (lackof, e.g. Similarly, Gail Riplinger writes Westcotts son writes of his fathers lifelong faith in what for lack of a better name, one must call Spiritualism. There is no historical evidence i am aware of of a forced standardizing of the text. for value), not counted. We still observe people using 1 John 5:7 to prove the Trinity. We know now that the Greek of the New Testament was common or koine Greek which was the Greek of Alexander the Great, a common, or marketplace Greek. They are based on an eclectic text which sometimes favors the TR over Aleph or B.This is true as far as it goes, but it ignores the heart of the issue. This is consistent with Riplingers claim; however, it had no bearing on his ability or skills as a textual scholar to produce and publish The New Testament in the Original Greek, a Greek-language version of the New Testament, which, again, published in 1881. baseline is the original Greek and Hebrew, so what we compare all versions to is the best text we can produce, our favourite translation. I once saw a Christian rant and rave to some Jehovahs Witnesses and he quoted 1 John 5:7, 1 Tim 3:16 and said the KJV was the true Word of God, it was embarrassing and it reinforced the Witnesses in their faith. Textus Receptus. The Scriptures are not to be privately interpreted. Instead they used the corrupted manuscripts of the Gnosticism-Origen-Eusebius- Jerome-Augustine lineage. (Joseph Van Beeks tract: KJV vs NIV, pgs 5 & 6), As to the personal beliefs of Westcot and Hort: 1) They never claimed or testified that the Bible was verbally inspired or inerrant. Updated September 20, 2004 (first published March 7, 2000), David Cloud, Way of Life Literature, P.O. Fifth, the period of copying the Byzantine text type was c. 330 1453 C.E. This version is now in thepublic domaindue to copyright expiration. The Response to the Appeal. These 5000 agree perfectly as to what happened. (1881). . What I write here is not an attack on the KJV it is an attempt to show how God continues to give us more knowledge and information which we must. But HORT DID NOT FAIL TO REACH HIS MAJOR GOAL. (11) If the KJVOist advocates are correct and the copyists for the Byzantine text DID NOT make all of the additions to the Greek text but rather the Alexandrian copyists removed them, why do the 140+ papyri manuscripts discovered in the 1930s the 1950s date with decades of the originals, 200 years before the 4th-century Alexandrian Vaticanus and Sinaiticus and 350 years before the earliest 5th-century Byzantine text looks just like the Alexandrian of manuscripts? In the early years of this century Kirsopp Lake described Horts work as a failure, though a glorious one. The translators said they expect new revisions of their KJV translation when more manuscripts come to light, and if there was an improved understanding of Hebrew and Greek, there should be revisions. However, we will address what amounts to their main arguments. An update to it (mainly to the New Testament as of now) is scheduled for release in 2025. Before delving into whether Westcott and Hort were Occultists or unbelievers, let us look at their work first. Puskas & Robbins (2012) noted that, despite significant advancements since 1881, the text of the NA27 differs much more from the Textus Receptus than from Westcott and Hort, stating that 'the contribution of these Cambridge scholars appears to be enduring. The very title itself - Revised Version - is a lie, since it was not a revision of the KJV at all, but an entirely new bible, intended to supplant the KJV. Of course, the motivation behind the King James Version Onlyist would certainly argue otherwise. Jun 29, 2006. Fourth, both were written on extremely expensive and durable calfskin. For those books, C. D. Ginsburgs Hebrew text was used. What New Testament Textual Studies Sources Do We Have? (13) What do you do with the fact that the KJV has 1,000 different words that do not mean today what they meant in 1611, even having the opposite meaning? They started the Ghostly Guild in 1851 and before that the Hermes Club in 1845. the KJV, it doesnt include 1 John 5:7 or the end of Mark, but it is established by many manuscripts. A. Hort (1828-1892), the towering pioneers of the textual criticism of the Greek New Testament. The Western text-type is much older, but tends to paraphrase, so according to the critical text view also lacks dependability. The KJV translators did not know this and sometimes mistranslated words because of this lack of understanding. Since WH, further discoveries and knowledge have meant the eclectic text we have now is even more accurate than back then. Grand Rapids International Publications, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49501, Pastor R. W. Shekner, Comparisons, Anchor Publications (anchorbooksandtracts.com), Taylor and Young, Distorted Scripture, Anchor Publications (anchorbooksandtracts.com), G. A. Riplinger New Age Bible Versions A V Publications, Box 388 Munroe Falls, Ohio, It wasonly in the first part of the nineteenth century (1831) that a German classical scholar, Karl Lachmann, ventured to apply to the New Testament the criteria that he had used in editing texts of the classics. [The personal letters of Hort and Westcott sound like the letters of men of the Jesuit order (that is, if you know the Roman Catholic Jesuits. and it progressed into the most corrupt period for the Church (priests to the popes: stealing, sexual sins, torture, and murder); so much so, it ends with the Reformation. We have no further information about its publication history, but are making it available in the same format in which we acquired it as a public service. The judge then listens to the other side which holds over 5000 witnesses. At Constantinople, it became the predominant form of the New Testament throughout the Greek-speaking world. Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1903) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828-1892) have been highly controversial figures in biblical history. Westcott and Hort, in turn, were rationalists in their approach to the textual problem in the New Testament and employed techniques within which rationalism and every other kind of bias are free to operate. Codex Ephraemi (C) Masoretic Text,Textus Receptus, Tyndale 1526 NT, some Erasmus manuscripts, and Bezae 1598 TR. Further, if we cannot demonstrate the Trinity without this one verse we need to learn to be better Bible students. What lies each of you believe in. CAN WE TRUST THE WESTCOTT AND HORT 1881 GREEK TEXT? While Karl Lachmann was the one to overthrow the Textus Receptus, it would be B. F. Westcott and F. J. This translation in many ways was the . "For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. [6]In her book, she accuses Westcott of being involved in the occult. I once saw a Christian rant and rave to some J, s and he quoted 1 John 5:7, 1 Tim 3:16 and said the KJV was the true Word of God, it was embarrassing and it reinforced. There are various groupings of texts. [7] Westcott, B.F. (July 1893). It is comparable to a judge with a criminal past, making a judgment based upon the witness of five liars, and at the same time ignoring the unified witness of over 5000 men. [4] (Greenlee, Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism 1995, 76-7). Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901), and Fenton J A Hort (1828-1892) were two renowned Anglican scholars at Cambridge University. (9) You say scribes/copyists do not make changes to the text intentionally and unintentionally, so how do you explain the copyists who write in the margins that a previous copyist made changes? The most recent is the Syrian, or Byzantine text-type (eastern), of which the newest example is the Textus Receptus and thus from the critical text view is less likely reliable. Both delete almost the same number of names and titles of the Lord (WH--221, UBS--212). Second, a number of old Byzantine and Western manuscripts are in good condition as well, which by this argument would indicate that they are also guilty of never having been read because they were full of errors, alterations, additions and deletions, so they would have had little chance of wear and tear. Westcott and Hort were spiritualists. ) Riplinger, pg 623, Westcott I shall aim at what is transcendental in many peoples eyes. His method of picking and choosing which verses belong and which verses dont, is called the eclectic method. In Christ Jesus our Lord, Nevertheless, it was Westcott himself who wrote, Many years ago, I had occasion to investigate spiritualistic phenomena with some care, and I came to a clear conclusion, which I feel bound to express in answer to your circular. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward" (1 Timothy 5:18). Burkitt. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, which underlie the Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament of 1881 have been somewhat discredited by textual critics of the 20th century. We can trust these, understand and appreciate the differences, but we would be foolish to ignore them or condemn the translators as the spawn of Satan or Lucifers dupes as I have read on occasion. But, except for three or four editors who timidly corrected some of the more blatant errors of the Textus Receptus, this debased form of the New Testament text was reprinted in edition after edition. gain access to 50+ premium resources to enhance your study of Scripture. Westcott and Hort's The New Testament in the Original Greek a critical Greek text based primarily on Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus. Textual Criticism. Burgon, Miller, and Scrivener in their second argument maintained that the Byzantine text was used by the church for far more centuries, which proved its integrity, as God would never allow the church to use a corrupt text. A. Hort, upon whose text the United Bible Society is based, which is the foundation for all modern-day translations of the Bible. Believing that the KJV is the Gold Standard or even worse the Word of God. also include Evangelical, Bible-believing scholars and many others all of whom have the highest academic credibility. What Does the Bible Really Teach About ________? Over the next four centuries or so, the Byzantine Empire and the Greek-speaking church were the dominant factors as to why this area saw their text becoming the standard. We know the verdict and outcome before the trial is over. Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828-1892) produced a Greek New Testament in 1881 based on the findings of Tischendorf. Brooke Foss Westcott(18251901) andFenton John Anthony Hort(18281892) were nineteenth-century theologians and Bible and textual scholars. As the old saying goes, Eat the meat. According to Bruce M. Metzger, "the general validity of their critical principles and procedures is widely acknowledged by scholars today. Versions / 1881 Westcott-Hort New Testament (WHNU) Publisher: Public Domain. [8] What was the inerrant word of God in the second and third centuries AD before the development of the Byzantine text? J.P. Hyatt, New York: Abingdon Press, 1965, p. 370).In the introduction to the 24th edition of Nestles Greek New Testament, editors Erwin Nestle and Kurt Aland make the following admission:Thus THE TEXT, BUILT UP ON THE WORK OF THE 19TH CENTURY, HAS REMAINED AS A WHOLE UNCHANGED, particularly since the research of recent years has not yet led to the establishment of a generally acknowledged N.T. Naturally so because they were Greek textual scholars. Codex Bezae (D). This should help the reader to see how desperate and weak their arguments are. Because this Bible is in the public domain, you are free to quote from or reprint it. The final conclusion here is simple, Westcott and Hort had some missteps spiritually as young men, they were not perfect as to their beliefs as young men, and they are under attack because they were the producers of the text that undermined the Textus Receptus that had been worshipped for centuries. Many modern versions like the New International Version (450 million copies worldwide), English Standard Version, H, , New Living Translation, New Century Version, A, and New American Standard Bible have been produced by the finest Bible believing scholars in the world. We do not have space nor the time to offer a full-scale argument against the King James Version Only and the Textus Receptus Only groups. These men were hereticks. Comparable to theEnglish Standard Versionand theNew American Standard Bible. It is the latter edition that was taken as the basis for the presentUnited Bible Societies edition. There are quite a number of conservative Bible scholars who might disagree with the Greek text of Westcott and Hort and there favoring the Alexandrian family of Greek texts. All we ask is that you give proper credit. Until recently the two chief witnesses to the Alexandrian text were codex Vaticanus (B) and codex Sinaiticus (), parchment manuscripts dating from about the middle of the fourth century. It is not surprising, therefore, that modern version proponents today often disassociate themselves from Westcott-Hort and claim that they merely use an eclectic Greek text. Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition, Masoretic Text (Biblia Hebraica), Textus Receptus Greek text, Popular Messianic Translation by the Institute for Scripture Research, This version is based on a limited 3000 word vocabulary and everyday sentence structure it is also known as the Plain English Bible, the International English Bible, and the God Chasers Extreme New Testament. The Westcott-Hort Greek text is very significant and its editors are highly significant to the history of textual criticism. To hold to varying forms of King James Only or Textus Receptus Only has caused great harm to the Christian Church; it confuses people. (7) Which is inerrant the Latin Vulgate Erasmus used to make some of the Textus Receptus or the Byzantine texts? One of the latest products of the New World Bible Translation Committee, it was released in 1969 at the "Peace on Earth" International Assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses. No mere mortal dare add to, or subtract from Gods Word (the last chapter in Revelation teaches this). What Can We Do to Establish Faith In the Restored Text of the New Testament? However, Westcott and Hort's work was not perfect. According to Bruce M. Metzger, the general validity of their critical principles and procedures is widely acknowledged by scholars today. In 1981 Metzger said. The TR was the critical text of its day, there is no reason to think that God froze in time the text of that period. In trying to rebut false claims, you made one yourself. by Dr. James Murdock. The Old Testament translation is based on the Hebrew Masoretic text. For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. Rev 22:18,19. (2.27, 29), The reading is less likely to be original that shows a disposition to smooth away difficulties (another way of stating that the harder reading is preferable). I think the Lucian recession theory has been rejected by the majority of textual scholars, but i may be mistaken. Riplinger links the spiritualist teachings of Westcott and Hort to the occult teachings of Madame Helena P. Blavatsky who wrote the Lucifer magazine. Princeton University Press' book, The Christian Socialist Revival (1968, Peter d'A Jones) says B.F. Westcott was "a mystic" (p. 179). How do you explain the differences in the manuscripts? Otherwise, they would have worn out and disappeared through much reading.. What I write here is not an attack on the KJV it is an attempt to show how God continues to give us more knowledge and information which we must value and appreciate. Hort did not believe in the complete blood atonement of Christ for the forgiveness of sins, calling such doctrine heresy. This criticism aside, the Westcott and Hort text is extremely reliable. For the reader of the NIV this note in brackets must at least cause doubt to enter ones mind as to the authenticity of these verses. That was my first introduction to B. F. Westcott (1825-1901) and F. J. This combination of claim and quote comes from the July/August 1993 issue of Battle Cry, the newspaper put out by Jack Chick. Revision of the King James Version. If we investigated the translators of the KJV we may be surprised at what we would find. has caused great harm to the Christian Church; it confuses people. They believed that the true work of God in English had been held back by an inferior Bible. The international committee that produced the United Bible Societies Greek New Testament, not only adopted the Westcott and Hort edition as its basic text but followed their methodology in giving attention to both external and internal consideration. That is, it is generally shorter than the text of other forms, and it does not exhibit the degree of grammatical and stylistic polishing that is characteristic of the Byzantine type of text. Therefore it is unwise for the sincere Christian to readily accept modern Bible translations assuming them to be accurate and faithful to the Word of God. 4. May God enlighten us all to the truth through His Word. Paraphrase of the Jewish Publication Society of America Version (Old Testament), and from Greek (New Testament) text. Brooke Foss Westcott (an Anglican bishop and professor at Cambridge University) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (also an ordained priest and professor at Cambridge) produced a Greek New Testament in 1881 based on the findings of Tischendorf. Take, for example, five men who are eye witnesses to a crime. In fact, Constantine had ordered 50 copies of the whole of the Bible for the church in Constantinople. So, what was the New Testament Text before the 9th century when the Byzantine came to be the majority and up until that time the Alexandrian was the majority? The Work of Gods Children Illustrated Bible. Who Wrote the Bible Book ________? The fact is that the Westcott-Hort text represents the first widely-accepted departure from the Received Text in the post-Reformation era, and the modern English versions descend directly from the W-H text. It follows the edition of Seligman Baer except for the books of Exodus to Deuteronomy, which never appeared in Baers edition. HebrewMasoretic Text, Hebrew and Aramaic New Testament sources. (2) How many textual errors (differences) are in the Byzantine manuscripts used to make the Textus Receptus, which is behind the KJV? (not fools for Christ, just fools!) Revised Version: RV: Modern English: 1885: Revision of the King James Version, but with a critical New Testament text: Westcott and Hort 1881 and Tregelles 1857 Andrews is the Chief Translator of the Updated American Standard Version (UASV). I have provided a link to a website that answers some of the more preposterous allegations against WH. The above article, Modern Bible Versions, and Westcott and Hort was written by Tim Pederson. It is unwise to use these KJV verses in apologetics due to the very clear textual evidence against them, evidence well known to Jehovahs Witnesses. Totaling to 7,320 places. In the early years of this century Kirsopp Lake described Horts work as a failure, though a glorious one. They make themselves the judge. . They have dedicated themselves to learn Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic, they have studied for decades the available manuscripts and have produced these translations as the fruit of their learning, humbly submitting themselves to Christ as they do it. The baseline is the original Greek and Hebrew, so what we compare all versions to is the best text we can produce, notour favourite translation. 2. To start with a doctrine and then correct or prefer a Bible translation because of it is, frankly, the wrong way around!! Book Submission for Christian Publishing House, https://www.logos.com/product/46572/studies-in-the-theory-and-method-of-new-test, View all posts by Christian Publishing House. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. All editions of Nestle-Aland remain close in textual character to the text WH. Aland reports that, while NA25 text shows, for example, 2,047 differences from von Soden, 1,996 from Vogels, 1,268 from Tischendorf, 1,161 from Bover, and 770 from Merk, it contains only 558 differences from WH text.[10]. Masoretic Text, Greek New Testament of Erasmus, the Vulgate, and theLuther Bible. Other translations such as the New Revised Standard Version, New English Bible, Contemporary English Version and Jerusalem Bible also include Evangelical, Bible-believing scholars and many others all of whom have the highest academic credibility. That means that you may freely copy it in any form, including electronic and print formats. The debate in the link below between White and Moorman shows how the King James Version Only view simply doesnt stand up and has no intellectual credibility at all. First, many of the papyrus Alexandrian manuscripts are in terrible shape, some being 200 years older than codicesVaticanus and Sinaiticus, which would mean that they must have been read very often by true believers. Masoretic Text, Erasmus third NT edition (1522), Martin Luthers 1522 German Bible. Translations are not based on the previous translation and revised, which is the claim of Mormons for instance, they are based on the manuscripts available, this is an important point to understand. The New Testament in the Original Greek is a Greek-language version of the New Testament published in 1881.It is also known as the Westcott and Hort text, after its editors Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828-1892). OFFERINGS can be mailed or made online with with Visa, Mastercard, Discover, or Paypal. White and others attempting to discredit the defense of the King James Bible claim that Westcott and Hort are not important because (they say) the modern versions (NASV and NIV) are not based on the Alexandrian text or on the Westcott and Hort text. It had nothing to do with it being the better text, i.e., the text that more accurately reflected the original. Archaeologists Discover 2,000-year-old Gemstone With balm Of Gilead Engraved On It, Masoretic Text, Westcott and Hort 1881 and Tregelles 1857.
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