A Grievous Wolf - Time for Truth

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“The Latin readings Erasmus had for the book of Revelation date back to the first and second century,
as evidenced by the still extant Old Itala manuscripts of the book of Revelation: c (6), dem (59), g (51),
h (55), m (PS-AU spe), reg (T), t (56), and z (65).”
In other words, contrary to Grievous Wolf’s disinformation, the Received Text does not rely on the
Vulgate for the any part of the Book of Revelation, given that Erasmus did not use it even for the initial
editions of the Received Text.
Will Kinney’s article on Revelation 22:19 is also most informative with respect to the last 6 verses of
Revelation, revealing that John Wolf’s Question 16 comes originally from the 1611 Holy Bible archsubversive
Doug Kutilek. See Introduction. Note this writer’s emphases in the following extracts.
See brandplucked.webs.com/rev2219bookoflife.htm and the following extracts.
...Mr. Kutilek says there are no Greek manuscripts that read “book of life”. He is flat out wrong about
this. Dr. Thomas Holland, Jack Moorman, Dr. H.C. Hoskier and many others have documented the textual
evidence that exists for the reading of “book of life” as found in Revelation 22:19.
Dr. Holland responds to this charge. You can see an excerpt from his book Crowned with Glory here:
http://av1611.com/kjbp/faq/holland_re22_19.html
There this question is posed and Dr. Holland responds:
Question: “If the Textus Receptus is the error free text, then why are the last six verses of Revelation
absent from the TR, yet present in the KJV? Did you know that for these verses, the Latin Vulgate
was translated into English - a translation of a translation?”
Dr. Holland replies: “The “TR” has the last six verses of Revelation in it. It is found in the editions of
Erasmus, Beza, Stephanus, and the Elzevir brothers.
Codex 1r, which was used by Erasmus, was missing Revelation 22:16-21. The standard teaching is that
Erasmus went back to the Latin Vulgate for these verses and re-translated them into Greek. However,
Dr. H. C. Hoskier disagreed by demonstrating that Erasmus used the Greek manuscript 141 which contained
the verses. (Concerning The Text Of The Apocalypse, London: Quaritch, 1929, vol. 1, pp. 474-
77, vol. 2, pp. 454,635.)
Regardless, the textual support for these verses is not limited to the Latin Vulgate. They are also found
in the Old Latin manuscripts, additional early translations such as the Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, and
Ethiopic, and some later Greek manuscripts.
Regarding the Greek, it should be pointed out that even today there is not a great deal of textual support
for the verses in question. For example, of the early papyri there are no manuscripts of Revelation 22,
or for that matter of Revelation chapters 18-22. Further, among the uncials, only five have Revelation
chapter 22, and only four of these contain the last six verses (Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus, 046, and 051).
There are several minuscules which have been discovered which contain these verses (94, 1611, 1854,
1859, 2042, and 2138 to name a few).
Of course, the biggest “change” comes in verse 19. Dr. Hoskier has shown that Greek manuscripts 57
and 141 read with the Latin in stating “book of life” and not “tree of life” as found in Sinaiticus and
most other Greek mss. There are, of course, other witnesses to the reading found in the KJV here. For
example, the Old Bohairic Coptic version also reads “book of life.” Additionally, we have patristic citations
from Ambrose (340-397 AD), Bachiarius (late fourth century), and Primasius in his commentary
on Revelation in 552 AD. Thus, we have evidence of the KJV reading dating from before the Vulgate
and maintained throughout Church history in a variety of geographical locations and various languages.
Will Kinney has these further important observations about Revelation 22:19 and by extension to the
1611 Holy Bible text for Revelation 22:16-21.
Mr. Jack Moorman, in his book “When the KJV Departs from the ‘Majority’ Text”, says the reading of
“book of life” is also found in the Coptic Boharic, the Arabic, the Speculum, Pseudo-Augustine and