[The personal letters of Hort and Westcott sound like the letters of men of the Jesuit order (that is, if you know the Roman Catholic Jesuits. Revised Version: RV: Modern English: 1885: Revision of the King James Version, but with a critical New Testament text: Westcott and Hort 1881 and Tregelles 1857 An exception is the text edited by Hermann von Soden. This Byzantine text is not the textus receptus, as it is thought to be by some, it is not the basis for the KJV, it doesnt include 1 John 5:7 or the end of Mark, but it is established by many manuscripts. Are the Modern Versions Based on Westcott-Hort? - Way of Life Literature Hort did not believe in the complete blood atonement of Christ for the forgiveness of sins, calling such doctrine heresy. The case, indeed, is far otherwise. Of course, I think they gave too much weight to CodexVaticanus alone, and this needs to be tempered. We have no further information about its publication history, but are making it available in the same format in which we acquired it as a public service. Thus, Vaticanus and Sinaiticus, leading representatives of the Alexandrian family of manuscripts, are in such great condition because they are full of errors, alterations, additions, and deletions so they would have had little chance of wear and tear, never having been used by true believers. The same would be true of Codex Vaticanus as well. He is currently helping set up a bible college in Southern Africa . This text has only a few changes of the original. An extensive comparison of the TR against the WH text, the Nestles Text, the UBS text, and key English versions was done by the late Everett Fowler and can be found in his book Evaluating Versions of the New Testament, available from Bible for Today. A. Hort in 1881 who would put the nails in the coffin of the Textus Receptus. #3. Vulgate, with influence from the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. Our primary goal with the FBIS is to provide material to assist preachers in the edification and protection of the churches. The New Testament in the Original Greek is a Greek-language version of the New Testament published in 1881.It is also known as the Westcott and Hort text, after its editors Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828-1892). There are over 5366 manuscripts of the Greek New Testament. Offering: We take up a quarterly offering to fund this ministry, and those who use the materials are expected to participate (Galatians 6:6) if they can. As we had just learned earlier under the corruption period, after Constantine legalized Christianity, giving it equal status with the pagan religions, it was much easier for those possessing manuscripts to have them copied. Which group do you think would be more trustworthy? What lies each of you believe in. At Constantinople, it became the predominant form of the New Testament throughout the Greek-speaking world. "[3] They find that without orthographic differences, doubtful textual variants exist only in one sixtieth of the whole New Testament (with most of them being comparatively trivial variations), with the substantial variations forming hardly more than one thousandth of the entire text. The KJV is a straight translation from the Majority text. Nevertheless, it was Westcott himself who wrote, Many years ago, I had occasion to investigate spiritualistic phenomena with some care, and I came to a clear conclusion, which I feel bound to express in answer to your circular. The Hebraic Roots Version Scriptures is a translation of the Tanakh/Old Testament from the Hebrew Masoretic Text. For information see: www.wayoflife.org/about/makeanoffering.html. CAN WE TRUST THE WESTCOTT AND HORT 1881 GREEK TEXT?: Were Westcott and They are the judges as to what belongs in the Bible and what does not. Is true to the word order of the original Greek. It is their position that the King James Version of the Bible is superior to all other English translations and that all English translations based on the Westcott and Hort text of 1881 (foundation text of UBS5 and NA28) are corrupt due to the influence of the Alexandrian Greek manuscripts.