[Steven Avery]

Hi Folks,

This short note about Erasmus may help understand the wisdom of the Reformation Bible scholars, who were well aware that the Greek, while generally the fountainhead, was subject to some corruption, especially in the first three centuries. (The Old Latin was translated by the 2nd century and thus could easily be in harmony with the true readings where such corruption occurred.) And these textual giants (today we barely have pygmies, with a few exceptions, please no height-sensitive people, this is all metaphorical) fully understood the immense value of the early church writer evidences.

http://www.bible-researcher.com/bib-e.html
"The Annotations show that quotations from the early Latin ecclesiastical writers ..... were often decisive in his choice of readings"

Thus Irenaeus, Ambrose and the Speculum (very likely Augustine) and the others would be a very major consideration to Erasmus, and similarly Stephanus and Beza. And the wisdom of the Reformation Bible scholarship underlies the excellence and majesty and perfection of the King James Bible.

Shalom,
Steven Avery