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Texts Used For The King James Version
Bibliology - Pastor Ronnie Wolfe B Lesson #11
Notes taken mainly from A Defending The King James Bible@ By D. A. Waite
Romans 3:1-2

  1. OLD & NEW TESTAMENT TEXT
    1. The King James Version of the Bible was translated from the Masoretic Text.
    2. The word Masoretic comes from the Hebrew word mesor, which means Traditional.
    3. This group of men were the Jews who were to preserve the traditional texts of the scriptures. This text was used for 1800 years to read and to translate the Bible.
    4. The Traditional Text is also called the Received Text.
      1. The Waldensians used the received text
      2. The churches of the Great Reformation used the received text
      3. The Erasmus Greek New Testament (1516) used the received text.
      4. Martin Luther= s German Bible (1522) used the received text.
      5. William Tyndale used the received text.
      6. Coverdale Bible used the received text
      7. Matthews, Taverners, Great Bible all used received text.
      8. The Stephanus Greek New Testament use the received text (1546-51). This became known officially as the Textus Receptus.
      9. Geneva Bible used the received text.
      10. Bishops= Bible used received text
      11. Beza Greek New Testament (1598) used the received text, and this is the text that was used to translate the King James Bible. It was Beza= s 5th edition
    5. So the Masoretic Text for the Old Testament was used throughout these 1800 years totally, and the Received or Traditional Text of the New Testament was used for these 1800 years totally.

  2. OPPONENTS OF THE TEXTUS RECEPTUS TODAY
    1. Nestle/Aland Greek New Testament, 26th Edition.
      1. This has been changed an average of every 3.1 years from 1898 to 1979. If a text has to be changed this often, how reliable can it be? This text has been changed (or corrected)_ 26 times in 81 years.
      2. The Greek that underlies the King James Version (Beza= s Greek New Testament, 5th edition of 1598) has not been changed in at least 390 years (from 1611 to 2001).
      3. Westcott was a bishop of the Anglican Church; Hort was a teacher at Cambridge University.
      4. Westcott and Hort changed the Received Text in 5600 places, changed some 9,970 Greek words.
      5. When the Westcott-and-Hort type Greek New Testament was complete, it had eliminated 2,886 words from the Received Text
    2. Kittel= s Biblia Hebraica Old Testament
      1. Rudolph Kittel was an apostate German rationalist, an unbeliever.
      2. Kittell used the Ben Asher Hebrew text rather than the Chayyim Hebrew Text.
      3. The Hebrew that underlies the King James Version is the 2nd Rabbinic Bible, Daniel Bomberg Edition, edited by Ben Chayyim in 1524-25. This was called the First Rabinnic Bible.
    3. Did Jesus use the Septuagint?
      1. Probably not
      2. He said that the Bible= s division is A The Law, the Prophets and the Psalms@
      3. The Septuagint did not have this division at all. The order in the Septuagint is A The Law, the Psalms and the Prophets.@

  3. WHY CHANGE THE KING JAMES VERSION?
    1. Upon the thesis that AYou cannot understand the King James Version
    2. Here is a table which will illustrate the reading level of the King James Version. This was taken by a computer program that determines these levels from the following passages.
       

     

    Passage

    Readability Number

    Grade Level

    For Genesis 1

    8.13

    8th Grade

    For Exodus 1

    7.94

    8th Grade

    For Romans 1

    9.74

    10th Grade

    Romans 3:1-23

    5.63

    6th Grade

    Romans 8

    7.72

    8th Grade

    Jude 1

    10.11

    10th Grade

  4. WHY REJECT THE WESTCOTT-HORT TEXTS?
    1. They used the B and Aleph manuscripts.
    2. These were rejected because they were of no value to their owners. Their owners recognized them to be perverted texts, having been defaced and polluted by heretics and others.
    3. These manuscripts were preserved for two reasons:
      1. They were in Egypt where the climate was conducive to their survival.
      2. They were not used by the church because they realized they were full of heretical changes. They escaped burning and persecutions by being hidden away through disuse and not out in the open.
      3. The Vatican (B) text was stored in the Vatican Library.
      4. The Sanai text (Aleph) was found in the wastepaper basket at St. Catherine= s Monastery. Tischendorf bought these manuscripts from the wastepaper, where they were going to be burned to keep the house warm.
      5. Aleph is said by Tischendorf to have 15,000 changes made by contemporary or later hands.

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