[Steven Avery]

Hi Folks,

Originally Posted by bibleprotector

While the Traditional Majority Greek Text is reflected in the TR, the TR is greater because it takes into account the Latin (called the Western Family) and also takes into account the testimony from the Minority Text Family, which it knows (or rather, which its editors knew) was a corrupted.

Amen.

I would avoid the term Western Family because at times "Western" is used for a supposed Greek text-line (one that was more Latin influenced) of a handful of manuscripts. They come up with this type of stuff.

And the Textus Receptus takes into account early church writers (a huge evidence) and also the variety of factors of internal logic, grammar, external truth, consistency. Also even the Syriac evidence might have contributed a bit. By combining all the elements properly we receive the Reformation Bible, unto the pure and perfect King James Bible. Greek Majority is a major component, yet by itself has many deficiencies (Johannine Comma, Acts 8:37, 'her purification' Luke 2:22 and much more will be faulty in a Greek majority text).

Originally Posted by bibleprotector

The great deception of Westcott and Hort was to favour one particular manuscript (B) of the Minority Text against all other witnesses (though probably except when Aleph was worse). This equals most modern versions.

You could say they used Vaticanus (B) and Sinaiticus (Aleph) in a "proof-text" fashion. If they agreed, if the reading was not totally absurd, that was their text no matter what. Today it is not much different with NA and UBS derivative texts, which are behind all the modern versions. Keep in mind that the modern version English Bibles mask a lot of their Greek text corruptions, e.g. changing "which" or "who" to "he" in 1 Timothy 3:16 and including the true ending of Mark, the resurrection accounts of the Lord Jesus, in the text while claiming it as the tampering of man. Hypocrisy, thou art no jewel.

Originally Posted by bibleprotector

Another deception is to follow the majority of the Majority Family only, but to have a bias toward the Minority as well, which equals the NKJV.

While the NKJV has many inferior translations and sickly footnotes throughout, in almost all cases it will follow in the text a TR reading against the Majority Text, where they differ. In my experience exceptions are few, especially if we are just talking NT.

Shalom,
Steven Avery