Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

When the one thousand years had gone by,
strains of new gladness were heard. Gradually
these grew in crescendo until the whole choir of
voices broke forth as Erasmus threw his first Greek
New Testament at the feet of Europe. Then
followed a full century of the greatest scholars of
language and literature the world ever saw. Among
them were Stephens and Beza, each contributing
his part to establishing and fortifying the Received
Text. The world stood amazed as these two last
mentioned scholars brought forth from hidden
recesses, old and valuable Greek manuscripts.
Erasmus restores the received text
The Revival of Learning produced that giant
intellect and scholar, Erasmus. It is a common
proverb that “Erasmus laid the egg and Luther
hatched it.” The streams of Grecian learning were
again flowing into the European plains, and a man
of caliber was needed to draw from them their best
and throw it upon the needy nations of the West.
Endowed by nature with a mind that could do ten
hours work in one, Erasmus, during his mature
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