While Karl Lachmann was the one to overthrow the Textus Receptus, it would be B. F. Westcott and F. J. A. Hort in 1881 who
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NTTC MATTHEW 1:3: “Zara” or “Zare”
Matthew 1:3 Updated American Standard Version (UASV)
3 and Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez became the father of Hezron, and Hezron became the father of Ram,
BRIAN WALTON (1600 – 1661) NEW TESTAMENT TEXTUAL CRITICISM SCHOLAR
He was an English priest, divine and scholar. He was born at Seymour, in the district of Cleveland, Yorkshire. His early education was at the Newcastle Royal Free Grammar School.
NTTC LUKE 9:2 “and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal [the sick (τοὺς ἀσθενεῖς)]”
While Metzger’s point is well taken that this was Luke’s style to have an infinitive followed by an object, when we have two variant readings, this suggests to us that we have …
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NTTC LUKE 8:43: “who [spent all her living on physicians] and could not be healed by anyone”
The longer reading is also suggestive of the synoptic parallel in Mark 5:26, which means that it is very much likely that a scribe condensed the words of Mark. The expanded reading [“spent all her living on physicians”] is supported by א A C L W Θ Ξ Ψ f1, 33 Maj. While the longer reading is found in the Nestle-Alans text, it is …
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NTTC MATTHEW 5:25: “and the judge to the officer” Or “and the judge hand you over to the officer”
Those who favor the Byzantine, Majority Text and the Textus Receptus may try to argue that the repetition could have been original and then the Alexandrian copyists removed it from the manuscripts for the sake of brevity and simplicity, which is Characteristic of the Alexandrian text type …
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