“HOW COULD THE KING JAMES BIBLE
BE TRANSLATED FROM A DOCUMENT
THAT HAD NOT YET BEEN PUBLISHED?”
“HOW COULD THE KING JAMES BIBLE
BE TRANSLATED
FROM A DOCUMENT
THAT HAD NOT YET BEEN
PUBLISHED?”
If the Textus Receptus was only published in 1633,
how could the 1611 King James Bible be translated from it?
The term Textus Receptus (TR) or Received
Text first appeared in the Latin preface of the Dutch 1633 Elzevir edition
… as follows …
…. “textum ergo habes, nunc ab omnibus
receptum.” (The Elzevir preface of 1633)
In English it reads … “According to the text
now held from the volume received”.
You see, prior to this there had been many
Textus Recepti published by various men … that is … there was a volume
of them.
Erasmus was the most famous of them … followed by Stephanus,
Beza and the Elzevir brothers.
Erasmus had five editions of 1516, 1519,
1522, 1527, 1535
Stephanus had four … 1546, 1549, 1550,
1551
Beza had four … 1565, 1582, 1588,
1598
KING JAMES TRANSLATORS 1611
Elzevir brothers had three … 1624, 1633, 1643
Although the term of Textus Receptus
(TR) only came into being twenty-two years after the 1611 King James translation,
many TR Greek Texts had been published before it.
It is accepted that this term can be
applied to all previously published TR’s … those before the 1633 Elzevir
edition.
The term TR has been generically
applied backwards to all previously published TR Greek texts, including the
1611 TR of the King James Bible translators.
The term TR is the umbrella term
now applied to the godly line of all TR’s.
Harley Hitchcock
February 2024
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