Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

“It should be stated at once that the Textus
Receptus is not a bad text. It is not a heretical text.
It is substantially correct.”[5]
Again: “Erasmus seemed to feel that he had
published the original Greek New Testament as it
was written. ... The third edition of Erasmus (1522)
became the foundation of the Textus Receptus for
Britain since it was followed by Stephens. There
were 3300 copies of the first two editions of the
Greek New Testament of Erasmus circulated. His
work became the standard for three hundred
years.”[6]
This text is and has been for 300 years the best
known and most widely used. It has behind it all
the Protestant scholarship of nearly three centuries.
It ought to be pointed out that those who seem
eager to attack the King James and the Greek
behind it, when the enormous difficulties of the
Revised Greek Testament are pointed out, will
claim the Revised Text is all right because it is like
the Greek New Testament from which the King
James was translated: on the other hand, when they
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