JUNE 25, 1971
"THE CASE FOR THE RECEIVED TEXT OF HEBREW AND GREEK UNDERLYING THE KING JAMES VERSION--
A SUMMARY OF THE EVIDENCE AND ARGUMENT"************
By
Rev. D. A. Waite, Th.D., Ph.D.
Director, THE BIBLE FOR TODAY, INCORPORATED
900 Park Avenue
Collingswood, New Jersey 08108
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Copyright, THE BIBLE FOR TODAY, INCORPORATED, 1971
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED[...]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS
- THE WRITER'S QUALIFICATIONS AND INTEREST IN THE SUBJECT
- LIFE IN A REVOLUTIONARY AGE
- PRESERVING THE HEBREW AND GREEK TEXTS
- THE WORK OF TRANSLATING
- DIVISIONS OF WHAT HEBREW AND GREEK TEXTS TO USE
- THE TRINITARIAN BIBLE SOCIETY OF LONDON
- THE VANISHING "RECEIVED TEXT" OF BOTH HEBREW AND GREEK
- The Masoretic Hebrew Text Being Edited Away
- The Textus Receptus Greek Text Today
- THE PLAN OF THIS PAPER--SUMMARIZING THREE BASIC BOOKS
- Believing Bible Study, By Edward F. Hills, 1967.
- God Wrote Only One Bible, By Jasper James Ray, 1970.
- Which Bible?, By Dr. David Otis Fuller, 1970.
- Method of Referring To The Three Books In Quotations
- Why Make A Summary Of "Evidence And Argument"?
- ORGANIZATION OF THE REMAINDER OF THE PAPER
CHAPTER II
A PANORAMIC VIEW OF TEXTUAL MATTERS IN HEBREW AND GREEK
- The Masoretic Text Is The Received Text Of The Hebrew
- The Hebrew Text Of Christ's Day Was Reliable
- The Masoretic or Traditional Hebrew Text Was Used From The First Century To The
Reformation- Even Critics Of The Masoretic Hebrew Text Agree That Rabbi Aquiba Put It In Its
Final Form- The Hebrew Received Text Or Masoretic Text Was Not Even Tampered With By The English
Revisers Of The English Revised Version Of 1881- Linguist And Scholar, Robert Dick Wilson, Put His Unqualified Stamp Of Approval On
The Masoretic Text Of The Hebrew Old Testament- The Dead Sea Scrolls Also Bear Witness To The Masoretic Text Of Hebrew {12}
- THE APPROXIMATE NUMBERS AND TYPES OF GREEK NEW TESTAMENT MANUSCRIPTS IN EXISTENCE TODAY
- Growth In The Discovery Of New Testament Greek Manuscripts And The Cataloging Of
Them Through The Years {12}- Thiessen's Estimate In 1948--4,411 Manuscripts {13}
- Ken.'s Estimate In 1940--4,489 Manuscripts {13}
- Met.'s Estimate In 1964--4,969 Manuscripts {13}
- Ala.'s Estimate In 1967--5,255 Manuscripts {13}
- TEXTUAL MATTERS IN GENERAL {13}
- Critical Apparatus Of Some Kind Is Necessary To Show Variant Readings {13}
- Westcott and Hort's Absence Of Many Footnotes Was Tragic And Indicated They Thought
They Had The "True text," Thus Rejecting The MAJORITY Of Manuscript Evidence {14}- To Be Entirely Acceptable, A Greek Text Should Record Practically EVERY VARIANT
READING Of The Manuscript Or Verse Being Examined {14}- J. W. Burgon's Seven Tests Of Truth In Weighing New Testament Manuscripts {14}
- THE THREE TYPES OF GREEK MANUSCRIPT FAMILIES IN GENERAL {14}
- The Traditional, Byzantine, Majority Text, Or Textus Receptus, Received Text {14}
- The Western Text--The Latin Vulgate, And Others, A Much Longer Text {14}
- The Alexandrian Text--"B" and "Aleph" Of Westcott And Hort, A Shorter Text {14}
CHAPTER III {15}
THE TRADITIONAL (OR MAJORITY, OR RECEIVED) TEXT UNDERLYING THE KING JAMES VERSION
- The Traditional Or Majority Text In General {15}
- A Chronology Of Attempts To Corrupt The Traditional Text {15}
- Belief In Divine Preservation Of The Bible Is As Important As Belief In Divine
Verbal Plenary Inspiration Of The Bible In The Original Languages {15}- Attacks On The King James Version And The RECEIVED TEXT Which Underlay It {15}
1. A Period Of Concerted Attack {15}
2. Specific Enemies Of The King James Version And The Texts Which Underlay It {16}- The Traditional, Majority, Received Text Triumphed For Over 1800 Years, From Its
Writing Until About 1831 {16}- The Versions, Texts, Translations And Areas Of The World Which Have Helped To
Preserve The Traditional, Majority, Received Text Through The Years {16}
1. The Regions And Groups With Some Versions Listed {16}
2. The Specific Versions Containing Mostly The Traditional or Majority Text {16}
3. Some Of These Versions, Being In The 2nd Century, Antedate "B" And "Aleph" {16}- THE TRADITIONAL OR THE RECEIVED TEXT MAKES UP THE MAJORITY OF ALL GREEK NEW TESTA-
MENT MANUSCRIPTS NOW IN EXISTENCE TODAY! {16}
- Hodges Estimated 80% to 90% Of The Greek New Testament Manuscripts Extant Today Are
Of The Traditional, Majority Textual Variety {16}- Wilkinson Estimated That 19/20ths [or 95%] Of The Greek New Testament Manuscripts
In Existence Were Of The Traditional, Received Text Variety {17}- Of The Thousands Of Manuscripts Discovered Since The 1611 King James Version, The
Great Majority Are In Substantial Agreement With The Traditional, Received, Majority
Text Underlying The KJV {17}- The Majority Text Held Sway Definitely From 312-1453 A.D. And Beyond {17}
- The Fact That This Majority Text Held Sway For So Long Attests To The Doctrine Of
The DIVINE PRESERVATION Of The Text {17}- Zane Hodges Showed That The Received Text, Being The "MAJORITY TEXT" Is The Text
"NEAREST THE AUTOGRAPH" Of The New Testament {18}- THE HISTORY OF THE TEXTUS RECEPTUS, OR RECEIVED, MAJORITY, TRADITIONAL TEXT {18}
- The Origin Of The Term, "TEXTUS RECEPTUS," Or Received Text {18}
- The History Of The Textus Receptus From Erasmus And Onward {18}
1. Erasmus Helped In The Divine Preservation Of The Bible {18}
2. Various Versions Of The Textus Receptus Delineated {19}
3. How Erasmus Arrived At His Greek Text Or Received Text {19}
4. The Influence Of Erasmus On William Tyndale's English Translation Of The Bible {19}
- Testimonials To The Authenticity Of The Textus Receptus Or Received Text {20}
1. Rev. G. Van. Smi., A Uni. Member Of The English N. T. Rev.
Com. Commented On The Received Text {20}
2. Dr. A. T. Robertson's Comment On The Received Text {20}
3. Abraham Kuyper (1894) Commented On The Received Text {20}
- THE HISTORY, USE, AND VALUE OF THE KING JAMES VERSION OF 1611 {20}
- Trinitarian Bible Society's Secretary, Rev. Terence H. Brown, Pointd Out The King
James Version Translators Believed In The "Inerrancy Of The Holy Scriptures" {20}- The Scholarship Of The King James Translators {21}
- The Method Used By The King James Translators {21}
- Conclusions On The Usefulness And Value Of The King James Version {21}
CHAPTER IV
THE WESTERN TEXT FAMILY OF MANUSCRIPTS {21}
- THE WESTERN TEXT FAMILY IS USUALLY CHARACTERIZED BY ADDITIONS {21}
- AN IDENTIFICATION OF THE WESTERN TEXT BY VERSIONS AND MANUSCRIPT TITLES {22}
- JEROME'S LATIN VULGATE COMMITTED TO THE INFLUENCE OF ORIGEN {22}
- EVEN ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOLARS POINT OUT THE MANY ERRORS OF THE LATIN VULGATE {22}
- THE REFORMERS REJECTED THE LATIN VULGATE IN FAVOR OF THE RECEIVED TEXT {22}
- SOME OF THE MEN WHO FAVORED THE WESTERN TEXT LISTED {22}
CHAPTER V
THE ALEXANDRIAN TEXT FAMILY OF MANUSCRIPTS--"B" AND "ALEPH" {22}
- AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ALEXANDRIAN FAMILY OF MANUSCRIPTS {22}
- DEFECTS IN MANUSCRIPTS "B" AND "ALEPH" {23}
- WESTCOTT AND HORT AND OTHER TRANSLATORS OF THE ENGLISH REVISED VERSION OF 1881 {25}
- "B" AND "ALEPH" WEIGHED AGAINST THE RECEIVED TEXT OF THE KING JAMES VERSION {30}
CHAPTER VI {34}
CORRUPTION IN THE "B" AND "ALEPH" FAMILY MANUSCRIPTS
- "B" AND "ALEPH" CORRUPTION IN GENERAL {34}
- A Chronology Of Attempts To Corrupt The Traditional Text {34}
- The Antiquity Of "B" Or "Aleph" Provides No Security That It Was Not CORRUPTED By
Heretics At An Early Age {34}- "B" And "Aleph" Contain False Readings Due To Deliberate Falsification And To Ef-
forts To "Improve The New Testament Text" {34}- Burgon Charged "B" And "Aleph" With Being Products Of "SEMI- ARIAN" Opinions {34}
- Hoskier Believed "B" And "Aleph" Contained The False Textual Criticism And Specula-
tive Philosophies Of Origen {34}- At Least 80 Heretical Parties Were Prevalent In The Early Church To Corrupt The Manuscripts {35}
- Wilkinson Names Four Men As Being The Leaders In Corrupting "B" And "Aleph" {35}
- The Heresy Of Gnosticism Was A Cause Of Corruption In Some Texts Also {35}
- SPECIFIC EXAMPLES OF TEXTUAL CORRUPTION IN THE "B" AND "ALEPH" FAMILY OF ALEXANDRIAN
MANUSCRIPTS IN MATTERS OF DOCTRINAL IMPORTANCE {35}
- Some Of The Editions Of The Bible Which Have Followed "B" And "Aleph" In Their
Doctrinal Corruptions {35}- Some Of The Editions Of The Bible Which Have Followed The Original Textus Receptus
For The Most Part, And Which Do Not Have These Specific Doctrinal Corruptions {35}- The Plan Of Ray's Book {36}
- Specific Examples Of Corruption Of The Text of "B" And "Aleph" For The Most Part,
Involving Doctrinal Changes Or Omissions {38}- Conclusions About These Verses Which Are Omitted In The "B" And "Aleph" Alexandrian
Family of Manuscripts {44}CHAPTER VII
CONCLUDING REMARKS {45}
- WE MUST REVIVE THE HEBREW AND GREEK RECEIVED TEXTS {45}
- THE TRINITARIAN BIBLE SOCIETY HAS WISELY CHOSEN TO USE THE KING JAMES VERSION IN ENGLISH
AND VERSIONS BASED ON ITS HEBREW AND GREEK RECEIVED TEXTS {46}- ANY AMERICAN BRANCH OF THE TRINITARIAN BIBLE SOCIETY MUST FOLLOW THE HOME BRANCH IN
THIS MATTER {46}- THE PRESENCE OF THE UNI. BIB. SOC.'S GREEK TEXT ARGUES ALL THE MORE TO RE-PRINT
AND RE-PUBLISH AND WIDELY DISTRIBUTE THE GREEK RECEIVED TEXT {46}- THE TIME HAS NOT COME TO TEAR THE KING JAMES BIBLES FROM EVERY FUNDAMENTAL PULPIT AND
PEW IN AMERICA! {46}