The thing that scares me tremendously about the Textus Receptus is it was compiled from only a handful of very late dated manuscripts (around the 10th century at the earliest if I remember correctly). Erasmus adjusted the text in many places to correspond with readings found in the Vulgate or as quoted in the Church Fathers; consequently, although the Textus Receptus is classified by scholars as a late Byzantine text, it differs in nearly 2000 readings from the standard form of that text-type, as represented by the "Majority Text" of Hodges and Farstad (Wallace 1989). [6] They all dated from the 12th Century or later, and only one came from outside the mainstream Byzantine tradition. The Textus Receptus was mainly established on a basis of manuscripts of the Byzantine text-type, also called 'Majority text', and usually is identified with it by its followers. and might cause the information to become sidetracked. The overwhelming success of Erasmus' Greek New Testament completely overshadowed the Latin text upon which he had focused. They feel morally and doctrinally superior to advocates of the new versions because they limit their shenanigans to only the Textus Receptus. 1 As a result the Textus Receptus has many small irregular readings that are only found in a very small minority of Greek copies. "Textus Receptus Only"/"Received Text Only" – This group holds the position that the traditional Greek texts represented in the Textus Receptus were supernaturally (or providentially) preserved and that other Greek manuscripts not used in this compilation may be flawed. Codex Bezae was twice referenced (as Codex Bezae and β' of Estienne). As a result the Textus Receptus has many small irregular readings that are only found in a very small minority of Greek copies. Some variants appear in only a single (late) manuscript, and thus the chances of them being in the original ... and therefore the Confessional Position simply holds no water. [11], John Mill (1645–1707) collated textual variants from 82 Greek manuscripts. 18. history, scholarship, and men's traditions are the only authority; 19. scriptural quotations are notsutficient to resolve the issue; 20. use extra-scriptural terminology and no clear positional proof-texts; For many centuries, it was the standard text of the Greek Bible. "Vous avez donc le texte reçu par tous, dans lequel nous n'indiquons rien d'altéré ou de corrompu". Create New Account. According to the first position the Textus Receptus has to be the one and only reliable text of the Greek New Testament. Firstly, it only used a very small number of Greek copies that Erasmus had on hand at the time. Manuscripts were marked by symbols (from α to ις). [26] He suggested 150 corrections in the Textus Receptus Gospel of Matthew alone. [...] With respect to Manuscripts, it is indisputable that he was acquainted with every variety which is known to us, having distributed them into two principal classes, one of which corresponds with the Complutensian edition, the other with the Vatican manuscript. The only caveats is that the received text must be in the original language since inspiration … Textus Receptus is not mutilated with deletions, additions and amendments, as is the Minority Text. While his intentions for publishing a fresh Latin translation are clear, it is less clear why he included the Greek text. These assertions are generally based upon a preference for the Byzantine text-type or the Textus Receptus and a distrust of the Alexandrian text-type or the critical texts of Nestle-Aland, and Westcott-Hort, on which the majority of twentieth- and twenty-first-century translations are based. The Textus Receptus and Modern Bible Translations ... publication only in 1522, Erasmus triumphed in this competition. La préface de cette édition affirmait, en latin : Textum ergo habes, nunc ab omnibus receptum: in quo nihil immutatum aut corruptum damus. Textus Receptus (latin : "texte reçu") est le nom donné a posteriori aux versions en grec imprimées successives du Nouveau Testament qui constituent la base des traductions en allemand de la Bible de Luther, de la traduction en anglais de William Tyndale, de la Bible du roi Jacques et de la plupart des traductions de la Réforme protestante en Europe occidentale et centrale. F. H. A. Scrivener (1813–1891) remarked that at Matt. 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