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The King James version Onlyist love to use a handful of men’s arguments to defend the corrupt Textus Receptus and the King James Version. Hills’ work The King James Version Defended is used to have some kind of modern-day scholarly work to give credibility to their tired, old theories about Bible translations.
Codex Vaticanus (03, B) contains the Gospels, Acts, the General Epistles, the Pauline Epistles, the Epistle to the Hebrews (up to Hebrews 9:14, καθα[ριει); it lacks 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, and Revelation. It is written on 759 leaves of vellum and is dated to c. 300–325 C.E.
This makes more certain for us the Apostle Peter’s words: “But the word of the Lord endures forever.” (1 Peter 1:25) We can have the same confidence that the One who inspired the Holy Scriptures, giving us His inerrant Word, has also used his servants to preserve them, irrespective of the intentional and unintentional textual variants that entered the copies of the text, throughout the last two thousand years, and especially those many dozens of textual scholars that restored the text to its original form, “who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (1 Tim. 2:4)
Explore the trustworthiness of ancient New Testament documents. Discover the journey of these texts through history.
Were Westcott and Hort occultists? The documents—not rumors—show their 1881 Greek text aligns with the earliest witnesses and remains a reliable starting point.
Discover methods to strengthen your belief in the authenticity of the Scriptures.
The long-held task of the textual scholar has been to recover the original reading. It has been the process of attempting to ascertain the original wording of the original New Testament texts. Oh, how things have changed.
Explore how the growth of early Christianity influenced the New Testament texts. Discover the changes and adaptations.
This article may be somewhat controversial because many modern textual scholars are not certain that we can get back to the original text.
Uncover the truth behind New Testament texts: learn about the processes ensuring accuracy. Click to read more on this vital topic.
