Now take your Bibles and look at Mark 16:9-20. Westcott – “I reject the word infallibility of Holy Scriptures overwhelmingly.” Riplinger, pg 622, Hort – “Evangelicals seem to me perverted. Westcott and Hort themselves made this claim in their day, and it is … The Bible teaches “No Scripture is of private interpretation”. The following is information is take from two sources, G.A. 2:16, Col. 2:9). Isn’t it better to trust that God preserved His Word in the 5000+ witnesses rather than the five witnesses who do not agree with each other? I suppose I am a communist by nature.” Riplinger, pg 624, Westcott – “our Bible as well as our Faith is a mere compromise.” Riplinger, pg 625. (Hort’s letter to Westcott regarding their writing other things. Both found nothing wrong with the worship of Mary. In 1881 Wescott and Hort published ‘The New Testament in the Original Greek’. It is generally believed that these were from the 50 that Eusebius prepared for Constantine. You have to believe that their killers could be trusted. . Hort and Westcott defended the inclusion of a Unitarian scholar on the Revision Committee. Though they no longer live, their legacy lives on in the form of a corrupted Greek text. This requires us to reach back in history to the days of the apostles, when the New Testament was written in the original Greek language – sometime between 33-100 AD. For obvious reasons, the Textus Receptus is also referred to as the "Majority Text" since the majority (95% or more) of existing manuscripts support this reading. Hort clearly had a bias against the Textus Receptus, calling it "villainous" and "vile". The Vaticanus was found in the Vatican library in 1475 and was rediscovered in 1845. Compares the 1550 Stephanus Textus Receptus with the King James Bible. Proudly powered by WordPress Since the original books of the Bible do not exist anymore, it becomes necessary to translate the Bible from copies of the original. Hort’s success in this task and the cogency of his tightly reasoned theory shaped - and still shapes - the thinking of those who approach the textual criticism of the New Testament through the English language. This was called the Lucian Recension Theory. Add to cart. This Greek text had been in the works for 28 years, coming to light on May 12, 1881. On one side, their supporters have heralded them as great men of God, having greatly advanced the search for the original Greek text. Take, for example, five men who are eye witnesses to a crime. Translators of the Bible over the years have used these agreeing manuscripts to make what is called the MAJORITY TEXT. Instead they used the corrupted manuscripts of the Gnosticism-Origen-Eusebius- Jerome-Augustine lineage.” (Joseph Van Beek‘s tract: KJV vs NIV, pgs 5 & 6), As to the personal beliefs of Westcot and Hort: 1) They never claimed or testified that the Bible was verbally inspired or inerrant. the Minority Texts (primarily the Westcott and Hort Greek Text, based primarily on the Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Vaticanus). Even a brief comparison of passages between the NIV and KJV will yield useful information. An update to the 1966 Jerusalem Bible which uses more extensive gender neutral language The material is copyrighted and should not be reprinted under any other name or author. KJV was translated from Masoretic Text (OT) & Textus Receptus (NT) and most other versions were translated from Biblia Hebraica (OT) & Westcott-Hort (NT). John 8? The purpose of Westcott and Hort producing a Greek New Testament, based upon the Alexandrian manuscripts, was to begin the process of destroying America's churches. Do we listen to the 5000+ witnesses, or do we listen to the 5? Textual criticism is flawed because man’s judgment is by nature flawed with bias. Testament, testifies that the last 12 verses of Mark do not exist. Parallel Bibles. There are, I fear, still more serious differences between us on the subject of authority, especially the authority of the Bible.” Riplinger, pg 621, Hort – “[T]his may be cowardice – I have sort of a craving that our text should be cast upon the world before we deal with matters likely to brand us with suspicion. It is comparable to a judge with a criminal past, making a judgment based upon the witness of five liars, and at the same time ignoring the unified witness of over 5000 men. . Dr. The NET Greek New Testament is a modern Greek text based on Westcott and Hort. It is also known as the Westcott and Hort text, after its editors Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort. Tobin Pederson, When it comes to the various Bible versions of our modern day, most readers assume that all Bibles are created equal, with perhaps differing degrees of readability. But what does this mean and is it important? They began their work in 1853 and completed it in 1881, working for twenty-eight years independently of each other, yet regularly comparing notes. In spite of the fact that there is not a single historical reference to the Lucian Recension, many Bible colleges teach it as a historical fact. Instead of simply translating what the majority of witnesses agree to, they translate from their own fancy, the false witness of the five. ...if believing Bible students had the evidence of both sides put before them instead of one side only, there would not be so much blind following of Westcott and Hort. The climax of this restoration era goes to the immediate successors of these men, the two English Bible scholars B. F. Westcott and F. J. They are the judges as to what belongs in the Bible and what does not. It was accompanied by an introductory volume, which gave the rationale for the choices made. We don’t even know what part of which text they used and where! Critics commonly charge that the traditional Bible text used by believers for 1800 years adds material, and that we should be thankful for Westcott and Hort who came along in the 19th century to restore the text of the New Testament that had been corrupt for 1800 years and during the entire reformation. They make themselves the judge. In my own NIV Student Bible (Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids Michigan, Copyright 1986, 1992), there is no mention of Westcott and Hort, but a mere reference to “textual criticism.” The KJV, on the other hand, is based upon the Majority text, over 5000 witnesses agreeing. Any modern translation that is based upon Westcott and Hort's Greek text cannot be trusted, for it is based upon five manuscripts which do not even agree with one other. In 1853 these two Cambridge professors, Westcott and Hort, began to prepare a Greek Text based primarily on the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus manuscripts. A textual critic is one who picks and chooses what part of whose story they will believe to be true. Included Modules. Brooke Foss Westcott (an Anglican bishop and professor at Cambridge University) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (also an ordained priest and professor at Cambridge) produced a Greek New Testament in 1881 based on the findings of Tischendorf. Theme: Newsup by Themeansar. Thanks be to Him that His Word is faithfully preserved in the accurate translation of the King James Version. It is clear that the modern movement to revise the English Bible is based completely on the works of Westcott and Hort. In Christ Jesus our Lord, The KJV, on the other hand, is based upon the Majority text, over 5000 witnesses agreeing. ", Zane Hodges, a long time professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, writes, "Modern textual criticism is psychologically addicted to Westcott and Hort. The whole problem with textual criticism is that man becomes the judge of what belongs in the Bible and what doesn’t. Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1903) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828-1892) have been highly controversial figures in biblical history. The point here is simple. Riplinger speaks much on this subject and also aligns them with the New Age movement. This article may not be written by an Apostolic author, but it contains many excellent principles and concepts that can be adapted to most churches. The history of naturalistic textual criticism. Westcott and Hort state: " our belief that even among the numerous unquestionably spurious readings o Interlinear Textus Receptus Bibles shown verse by verse. In other words, the manuscript “Codex Vatican B” does not contain Mark 16:9-20. . Colwell writes, "The dead hand of Fenton John Anthony Hort lies heavy upon us. The conclusion is obvious. Their premise is that the doctrine of the preservation of Scripture requires that the early manuscripts cannot point to the original text better than the later manuscripts can, because these early manuscripts are in the minority.Pickering also seems to embrace such a doctrine. For even more information, see this forum post. Riplinger links the spiritualist teachings of Westcott and Hort to the occult teachings of Madame Helena P. Blavatsky who wrote the Lucifer magazine. 30:8, 59:21, I Pet 1:23. For the reader of the NIV this note in brackets must at least cause doubt to enter one’s mind as to the authenticity of these verses. They assume some are just more easy to read than others. There are different texts that the English translations of the Bible come from. A textual critic sets himself up as judge over God’s Word, when no man has such a right. In the 1870's, a challenge arose in the English world to the primacy of the King James Bible. Hort lobbied (some would say intimidated) committee members to follow the Westcott and Hort text. Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828-1892). Hort did not have a single historical reference to support the idea that such a recension took place. Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1901) was born at Birmingham and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828-1892) at Dublin. Any modern translation that is based upon Westcott and Hort’s Greek text cannot be trusted, for it is based upon five manuscripts which do not even agree with one other. And what do we know about these men who made themselves the judges over God’s holy Word? The one who writes “the earliest manuscripts…..” is the man we call a textual critic. Westcott and Hort were the original textual critics of their day. The following are quotes of Westcott and Hort, found in Riplinger’s book. Has literal English meanings based on the Greek roots. 2) They denied the Genesis account of creation and questioned whether Eden ever existed……Instead they praised Darwin’s 1859 theory of evolution. The New Testament in the Original Greek is a Greek-language version of the New Testament published in 1881. Westcott and Hort supplied everyone working on the committee with a private copy of their new Greek text. “For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” Rev 22:18,19. 44262. Simultaneously published with the RV was the Greek text of Westcott and Hort, two Cambridge scholars. Can his verdict be true? These 5000 agree perfectly as to what happened. The more recent translations such as the NASB and the NIV, claim to use […] Codex Bezae (D). In the court room they tell it to the judge as it is, yet when the judge hears each of their stories, the witnesses do not agree. His method of picking and choosing which verses belong and which verses don’t, is called the eclectic method. Readers of these new Bibles are quite unaware that they are reading the translation of a corrupt text. ...This was a sensational achievement, an impressive success. Without thinking or looking deeper into the matter, they blindly assume that every Bible is the same. The Scriptures are not to be privately interpreted. Westcott, Hort, and Bishop Lightfoot pressured the committee to go beyond their mandate for doing a revision of the King James Bible. The word MANUSCRIPTS is used to describe these copies or parchments which still exist. K.W. Codex Vatican (B) “In 1841 an old manuscript (Codex Vaticanus) was discovered lying on a shelf in the Vatican library. There had always been a challenge from Roman Catholicism, but this challenge came from men who were officially Protestants: Church of England Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott and Cambridge University Professor Fenton John Anthony Hort. The King James men used the Majority text (5000+) and simply translated it as is. For example in 196… "The two most popular Greek manuscripts today, Nestles-Aland and UBS (United Bible Society), differ very little from the Westcott and Hort text. At this point we have entered the realm of “textual criticism”. Therefore it is unwise for the sincere Christian to readily accept modern Bible translations assuming them to be accurate and faithful to the Word of God. The evidence was so strong supporting the text of the King James Bible they searched for some “magic rabbit” to … Compares the 1550 Stephanus Textus Receptus with the King James Bible. It is common knowledge that the Greek New Testament text produced by Westcott and Hort was based on the Alexandrian manuscripts Sinaticus and Vaticanus. A. Hort, upon whose text the United Bible Society is based, which is the foundation for all modern-day translations of the Bible. Textual Criticism. “When the modern Bible reader is asked if they are familiar with the two Textual Bible Critics, Westcott and Hort, most have never heard of them. Westcott and Hort's The New Testament in the Original Greek – a critical Greek text based primarily on Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus. Few churchgoers realize that the most popular revision in churches today, the New International Version (NIV), changed its content by 38.8% between the NIV 1984 and the NIV 2011. Certainly nothing could be more unscriptural than the modern limiting of Christ’s bearing our sins and sufferings to his death; but indeed that is only one aspect of an almost universal heresy.” 4) Hort wrote, “I have been persuaded for many years that Mary-worship and Jesus worship have very much in common in their causes and their results.” Westcott found a statue of Mary and a crucified Christ in a remote chapel and wrote, “Had I been alone, I could have knelt there for hours.”. The KJV is a straight translation from the Majority text. In like manner, if a scientist is also an evolutionist and aetheist, do we need to hear his science before we know his verdict? The same was also true of their immediate successors, the two English scholars B. F. Westcott and F. J. Hort, upon whose text the New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures is based. From Gipp's Understandable History of the Bible. Even the casual reader of the Bible, if he were to compare a modern translation (NIV) with the KJV, will easily find numerous differences between the two (Consider Revelation 1:11, Heb. Protestant New Jerusalem Bible: NJB Modern English 1985 From the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, with influence from the French La Bible de Jérusalem. The above article, “Modern Bible Versions, and Westcott and Hort” was written by Tim Pederson. But we must remember that Bibles are translated by men, and thus corruption is possible. In my own NIV Student Bible (Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids Michigan, Copyright 1986, 1992), there is no mention of Westcott and Hort, but a mere reference to “textual criticism.”, “Where existing manuscripts differ, the translators made their choice of readings according to accepted principles of New Testament textual criticism.”, Though these quotations say nothing of Westcott and Hort, they are hidden behind the words “accepted principles of textual criticism“. You could say that “Over five thousand witnesses agree, this New Testament is God’s holy Word”. We know the verdict and outcome before the trial is over. You have to believe that the Roman Catholics and the nineteenth century rationalists did have the pure word of God. critical text and the majority text are close enough to the originals and to one another that God can work through either text to bring people to salvation Not only do we have 5000+ manuscripts which are nearly identical, but the Lord Himself promises us through His Word to preserve His Scriptures for the sake of mankind. The KJV is based on a Greek New Testament text called the Textus Receptus, first published by Desiderius Erasmus in 1516 and subsequently revised by a number of scholars. In short, their theory suggests that for fifteen hundred years the preserved Word of God was lost until it was recovered in the nineteenth century in a trash can and in the Vatican Library. There are over 5366 manuscripts of the Greek New Testament. Textus Receptus) presented a huge dilemma for Westcott and Hort. So here is the dilemma when it comes to the “witness” of the Greek manuscripts. Alfred Martin, former Vice-President at Moody Bible Institute, wrote in 1951, "The present generation of Bible students having been reared on Westcott and Hort have for the most part accepted this theory without independent or critical examination. Masoretic Text, Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament (based on Westcott-Hort, Weiss and Tischendorf, 1862). "For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men"-Jude 1:4. They passed by the Traditional Text (Textus Receptus) which was the text upon which the King James Version is based. Textus Receptus Bible chapters shown in parallel with your selection of Bibles. The heart of the Wescott and Hort theory was that the New Testament was preserved in almost perfect condition in two Greek texts, the Vaticanus and the Sinaticus. The King James New Testament was translated from a different family of Greek texts. Westcott and Hort in turn, were rationalists in their approach to the textual problem in the New Testament and employed techniques within which rationalism and every other kind of bias are free to operate.". This text was then used to produce the Revised Version 1881 and the American Standard Version 1901. In 1881 two prominent scholars, Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton J. In 1844 part of another old manuscript (Codex Sinaiticus) was found in a wastebasket in St. Catherines’s monastery (the other part was found in 1859). To understand Westcott and Hort, you must first understand textual criticism. Literal English Features: Is true to the word order of the original Greek. The NIV (and others) is taken from the five Minority texts, which do not agree. A. Hort, printed their New Testament in Greek, later known as the Critical Text. The Heretics Behind the Modern Bible Versions. 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